South Dakota leads the nation in female incarceration. A new $87M women’s prison in Rapid City aims to expand rehabilitation ...
About 338 of every 100,000 women are behind bars in the state. Officials say the new facility could finally curb the nation’s ...
The Community Love Fund is an initiative of The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, ...
California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws, until now. Headway California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated ...
Speaking to the BBC, Prisons Minister Lord Timpson said there were too many women who were victims of domestic abuse in the ...
Women in Michigan's only prison for females were, per policy, video-recorded on corrections officers' body cameras while they were nude during routine strip searches and while showering and using ...
Blair County has asked a federal judge to dismiss a civil rights complaint by two female visitors who claimed they were forced to undergo strip searches before being allowed to enter the Blair County ...
Male inmates at an all-female prison in Fort Worth, Texas, are temporarily restricted from entering or using female-only private areas, a judge decided this week. It is the first time a federal court ...
They’re human beings, and we’re treating them like they’re animals. We’re not trying to rehabilitate them. We’re just ...