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 ...

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 ...

Women in this facility endure dehumanizing procedures that contradict every value espoused in the Governor’s river of hope-filled sentiments. It is the height of irony. In the same month officially ...

A new program using soccer to teach leadership and life skills has launched at the California Institution for Women, aiming to support rehabilitation and reduce recidivism among incarcerated women.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday accused Iranian authorities of causing three women to perish in Qarchak prison after systematic denial of adequate medical care, raising serious concerns over right ...

Editor’s note: The article discusses sexual assault. “Guarded by Predators” is a new investigative series exposing rape and abuse by Idaho’s prison guards and ...