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

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 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 ...

State officials are looking to build a new facility but some believe prison’s are not the answer. Protesters pleading with ...

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

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

Women at the California Institution for Women reported sexually abusive and “sadistic” behavior during gynecology exams ...

The suit says that for years, Dr. Scott Lee was the only full-time gynecologist at the California Institution for Women ...

Despite having some of the nation’s lowest crime rates, Idaho incarcerates more women per capita than any other state. Women ...