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

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

The number of women in jail globally has soared by 17% in a decade, despite leaders' pledges to put fewer women behind bars ...

Robbie Krieger didn't stop writing during Jim Morrison's legal troubles. The end result was The Doors' hit "Love Her Madly".

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, ...

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

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

Martha Layne Collins, whose distinction as the first woman to serve as governor of Kentucky was stained by her husband’s ...

Incarcerated women at MCI-Framingham are expected to gain access to college-level courses starting in January, as Boston College expands its Prison Education Program to the state’s only women’s prison ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A man convicted of stalking, groping and harassing multiple women on the streets of San Francisco is back in jail after getting out of prison, coming back to the city and ...

A new report from the nonpartisan think tank Council on Criminal Justice warns that policies and practices across the nation’s criminal justice systems are failing to address the distinct factors that ...

RICHMOND, Va. — A Portsmouth woman is among six people arrested in a months-long investigation into the attempted smuggling of about $1.1 million worth of drugs into the Virginia Correctional Center ...