More female inmates joined a federal lawsuit seeking to separate transgender inmates from female inmates at a Texas special ...

A local novelist will soon release a book detailing the time she ran a book club at a women’s prison in central Alabama.

Patients at Carswell medical prison in Texas describe unsanitary conditions, missed treatments and substandard care.

BOISE, Idaho — If they hadn’t met in prison, none of it would have happened like this. On the outside, Jamie Hamilton would have been polite to Derek Stettler, maybe have had “a conversation,” she’d ...

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is taking further action to keep male inmates away from women’s prisons, but ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Women are the fastest-growing population of incarcerated people. And if Republicans ...

INDIANA — Discussions about how to reduce crime are constantly happening in communities across the state of Indiana. One nonprofit that works in women’s correctional facilities in Indianapolis, ...

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, ...

Editor’s note: The article discusses sexual assault. “Guarded by Predators” is a new investigative series exposing rape and abuse by Idaho’s prison guards and ...

Editor’s note: The article discusses sexual assault, and contains graphic descriptions that may be offensive to some readers. “Guarded by Predators” is a new investigative series exposing rape and ...

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, ...