“In the male dominated, hierarchical prison environment, female prison staff may face unfair competition as well as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to data from the Prison Policy Initiative, more than 1.9 million people in the United States are incarcerated in prisons ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ashley Anderson, a former senior officer specialist at Federal Prison Camp Bryan.Photo composite by Bethany Mollenkof for NBC and ...

For too many women, prison is "as good as it gets." New research based on interviews with 80 female prisoners in Western Australia reveals most of these women were "criminalized" by circumstances ...

California ministry sponsors compromise bill, arguing that “one community’s safety cannot come at the cost of another’s.” In 2008, while Amie Ichikawa was serving her sentence at the Central ...

Fifteen years ago, the United Nations adopted the Bangkok Rules — the first international standard to address specifically ...

“My God, you also handed my son freedom,” said Patricia Cortes when she left El Buen Pastor prison on September 17, 2024. She had hoped to be able to guarantee her son’s food and health upon leaving ...

As Christmas approaches in a women's prison, the decorations and trees become brighter and fill up more of the available space, covering up blank walls and distracting the eye from harsh lighting and ...

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 ...