PEN America has announced the winners of its 2025 Prison Writing Awards, honoring 33 incarcerated writers from 20 states for ...

In 1976, Aileen's brother, Keith, died from cancer, per the Journal of Forensic Sciences. That same year, Aileen, who was 20 ...

By Alex Traub Martha Layne Collins, who in 1983 became Kentucky’s first female governor and the only female governor ... She was also the highest-ranking woman among Democrats at the time. In 1971, ...

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees to search for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, ...

The Oscar-nominated, Tony-winning British actress also appeared in 'Upstairs, Downstairs,' 'Paradise Road,' 'Albert Nobbs' ...

For the past 50 years, New York’s judges have been required to visit a prison every four years — a little-known mandate that ...

Martha Layne Collins, who as the only woman to serve as governor of Kentucky revolutionized the state’s economy by landing ...

In 2015, Andy White, a top session drummer in England during the 1960s who played on songs by Tom Jones and Herman's Hermits among others and stepped in for newcomer Ringo Starr as The Beatles ...

You never knew what she would say next.” Though she stood just under 4’11”, Nell McCafferty was larger than life. She was a ...

Miss Major was a revolutionary, a visionary, a mother, and a mentor to generations of LGBTQ people who dream of a better ...

Martha Layne Collins, who as the only woman to serve as governor of Kentucky revolutionized the state’s economy by landing ...

Women from 17 different countries are working together to coordinate the global struggle against mass incarceration.