These changes have included a range of new initiatives at Edna Mahan that center gender-responsive approaches in officer training and in service provision, and, most notably, the governor’s decision ...

The lawsuit was filed in Washtenaw County Circuit Court in May by 20 Jane Does who were at Women's Huron Valley Correctional ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Starting over after prison is hard. Olivia Perez was released after a 15-month sentence during the COVID-19 pandemic. Even with family to support her, it was still a tough ...

Colorado prisons are battling a growing number of inmates struggling with substance use disorder. Back in 2024, the attorney general said some parts of the state can see higher than two-thirds of ...

The Boston College Prison Education Program (BCPEP) launched at MCI-Shirley in 2019 and has served more than 100 incarcerated ...

California ministry sponsors compromise bill, arguing that “one community’s safety cannot come at the cost of another’s.” In 2008, while Amie Ichikawa was serving her sentence at the Central ...

What's life like for the 15,000 women behind bars in Mexico? In many ways, it's far worse than you might think.

Gov. Jeff Landry, center, a Warden Kristen Thomas cut a ribbon to open the new Louisiana Correctional Institution for Women in St. Gabriel on Aug. 28., 2025. (Governor's office photo) Officials cut ...

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The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day is ‘Accelerate Action’, with a call to speed up gender equality. Women ...