A new home for formerly incarcerated women is one of a handful in the state to help the women reenter society.

There are currently 45 women in the United States that are on death row after they were found guilty of heinous acts, ...

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Prison doulas and legislative interventions can be a lifeline for incarcerated pregnant women. But the most important solution is to abolish prison births altogether. After utilizing a doula while ...

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A former medical staffer at a now-shuttered federal women’s prison in California has been sentenced, marking the final criminal case tied to what authorities describe as the largest sexual abuse ...

The upcoming podcast “Dying on the Inside: Women Lifers at Muncy Prison” investigates the crisis of aging prisoners in Pennsylvania. The podcast “Dying on the Inside: Women Lifers at Muncy Prison” ...

The Government plans to ‘drive down the population of women’ in Wales, to improve resources for females in custody.