Women are often imprisoned for nonviolent crimes; their pathways into prison reflect high rates of childhood trauma.

LOCKHART, Texas (KXAN) — More than 70 state prison inmates earned their high school diplomas on Friday at the Gregory S. Coleman Unit. The Coleman Unit is home to a unique program hosted by the ...

Karmen Englert was in college in South Dakota when, in 2008, her mother died of a drug overdose. “I left, took off like a nomad, started selling drugs, and got in a lot of trouble,” she said. Now ...

Early in her second trimester, Linda Acoff was taken into custody for failing to complete court-ordered mental health treatment. After three weeks in the Cuyahoga County Jail in Columbus, Ohio, she ...

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A women’s prison in California so plagued by sexual abuse that it was known among inmates and workers as the “rape club” will be closed, the head of the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced Monday ...

California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws, until now. Headway California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated ...