If a woman is pregnant at the time she is sentenced to incarceration, the bill mandates that the court include a term of ...

Deise Moura dos Anjos, who was accused of fatally poisoning three members of her family with a Christmas cake, has been found ...

Women here remain unaware of their legal rights and are often economically disadvantaged and unable to afford legal representation. The state’s response has been ineffective in addressing the right to ...

A lawsuit filed this week alleges that the only full-time gynecologist at the California Institution for Women in Chino ...

The building, with “Statue of Liberty views,” will house low-income residents and formerly incarcerated individuals.

A fence with barbed wire encircles the water tower across from the state women’s prison in Shakopee. A plain chain-link fence lines the Catholic cemetery. But five years after local ...

Following Mississippi Today's investigation into a hazy legal theory used to imprison women who used drugs during their ...

A bill in the Kentucky legislature would require the state's prisons to designate bathrooms, sleeping quarters and other areas by biological sex.

The ACLU and federal court monitors continue to step in to implement systemic healthcare reform at Arizona state prisons. Meanwhile, a pregnant inmate at the Perryville complex describes her ...