Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The entrance sign at the Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Vandalia, Mo. New research suggests ...

A new report from the Council on Criminal Justice projects the number of women under correctional supervision in the United ...

The Department of Justice has ended its federal oversight of an Alabama women's prison after over a decade.

Although there are more men than women in prison, the growth rate of female imprisonment since 1980 has been twice that of men. Female incarceration in the U.S. has increased by more than 585 percent, ...

The increasing incarceration of women – often for minor, nonviolent offenses – carries a high human cost. There is a shift ...

“In the male dominated, hierarchical prison environment, female prison staff may face unfair competition as well as ...

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 ...

This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Tucked in a residential neighborhood of bungalows and ...

A federal judge’s ruling has temporarily prevented the transfer of three transgender women from women’s facilities to men’s prisons, marking a pivotal moment in the ongoing debate over transgender ...

Nearly one in three women in prison who were charged with murder or manslaughter report experiencing domestic violence, according to journalist Justine van der Leun’s survey of incarcerated women—but ...

Tucked in a residential neighborhood of bungalows and crape myrtle trees, the federal women’s prison in Bryan, Texas, doesn’t look like a traditional lockup. The women live in dormitory-style rooms ...