Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ashley Anderson, a former senior officer specialist at Federal Prison Camp Bryan.Photo composite by Bethany Mollenkof for NBC and ...

At Neve Tirza, the only women's prison in Israel, Jews, Muslims, and Christians languish in overcrowded cells and receive little care from guards.

For too many women, prison is "as good as it gets." New research based on interviews with 80 female prisoners in Western Australia reveals most of these women were "criminalized" by circumstances ...

From college-in-prison programs to job training, women are building futures that punishment alone was never designed to create. The College-in-Prison Program is a partnership between Tulane University ...

As Christmas approaches in a women's prison, the decorations and trees become brighter and fill up more of the available space, covering up blank walls and distracting the eye from harsh lighting and ...

Women’s incarceration has increased by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in jails or prisons in the ...

Prison doulas and legislative interventions can be a lifeline for incarcerated pregnant women. But the most important solution is to abolish prison births altogether. After utilizing a doula while ...

California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws, until now. Dena Hernandez, who served 13 years in prison, was resentenced and ...

Former jail cells in the Albany County Correctional Facility were converted to living space in 2020 for transitional housing for the homeless people under the Sheriff’s Homeless Improvement Program ...