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

I don’t know what to say other than I am shocked,” Benner Township Supervisor Kathy Evey said. “It could have a significant ...

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

Alabama bill allows pregnant women to defer incarceration and provide postpartum care for 12 weeks, with probation until that ...

Deise Moura dos Anjos, accused of poisoning three family members with arsenic-laced cake, was found dead in prison.

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 ...

The Board of Corrections also approved a lease for a ‘Women’s health unit' and expressed concerns about a delay regarding a ...

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

The bill would affect 67 transgender Kentuckians currently incarcerated who are receiving gender-affirming care via cross-sex ...

The Department of Corrections also wants to shut down two state-run Community Corrections Centers, one of which is in Berks County.

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 ...

After roughly four hours of testimony, District Judge Molly Owen sentenced Sunny K. White, 29, to the maximum sentence ...