WE MEET BOTH INSIDE A SPECIALIZED PRISON UNIT, THE PEACE UNIT AT MCI FRAMINGHAM. THIS IS THE OLDEST WOMEN’S PRISON IN THE NATION, BUT STATE CORRECTIONS COMMISSIONER SHAWN JENKINS SAYS THEIR ...

Last Friday afternoon, Kara Sternquist, a trans woman in custody at a federal women’s prison in Fort Worth, Texas, was taken from her unit. A guard told Sternquist that she had an unexpected ...

After three years of planning and retrofitting, the women’s prison at Vandalia is expected to open a nursery in February that can serve up to 14 mothers and their babies for 18 months at a time.

ST,. LOUIS – A nursery is set to open at the Women’s Eastern Correctional Center this week. The new law is an initiative to keep incarcerated mothers with their babies. The nursery will be ...

Albany, NY (WRGB) — A rally advocating for prison safety was held Monday, following the death of Robert Brooks, an inmate at Marcy Correctional Facility. Brooks died after being seen on body ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California woman was sentenced Monday to more than 3 years in prison in a long-running case over a business that helped pregnant Chinese women travel to the United States to ...

A majority of incarcerated individuals will one day return to live in the community ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (WSPA) – Two women from Spartanburg have been convicted in a scheme ... A judge sentenced Chavez-Muniz and Destiny Mercado to 42 months in prison, with their sentences to be followed ...

In one case that went to trial in federal court in Tallahassee, Florida, last week, a cisgender woman serving time in federal prison argued that being housed with transgender women — who used ...

LOS ANGELES — A Rancho Cucamonga woman was sentenced Monday to more than 3 years in prison in a long-running case over a business that helped pregnant Chinese women travel to the United States ...