Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in U.S. jails or prisons. By 2023, that number was roughly 186,000, according ...

Two Birmingham-area women are under arrest by state prison officials on drug charges. A search warrant at a Hoover home on Wednesday turned up 4 pounds of flakka and a flakka manufacturing lab. Later ...

"One minute, you think a guy would cut your heart out just for something to do, and the next, he might be making tea for a ...

Evangelina Perez lost count of the number of times her mother, Martha Perez, called her from federal prison, gasping for breath because she had missed dialysis treatments for her kidney failure. At 59 ...

The bill would codify protections adopted since sexual misconduct drove the feds to declare oversight of NJ's women's prison ...

Most of the recent lawsuits against Blair County and its prison have focused on the living conditions endured by the inmates, but this week, two female visitors complained in a federal civil rights ...

The rate of imprisonment for Black women decreased by 69 percent between 2000 and 2023, according to research by The Sentencing Project. The Sentencing Project is an organization that “advocates for ...

An internal assessment by the Michigan Department of Corrections contradicts the state’s public claims that conditions at ...