A civilized society protects women and children from men who seek to harm them. Yet under the banner of progress, child ...

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 ...

Nineteen inmates filed a class-action lawsuit claiming Illinois prisons punish instead of treat mental illness. Advocates say court-ordered reforms from a previous case were abandoned in 2022. The ...

Although there are more men than women in prison, the growth rate of female imprisonment since 1980 has been twice that of men. Female incarceration in the U.S. has increased by more than 585 percent, ...

The hallways of a conference center at Maryland’s Bowie State University on Tuesday were lined with tables packed with information on community services, education, jobs, and even transit information.

Spain has one of the highest incarceration rates in Europe, with 160 individuals imprisoned per 100,000 residents. In 2020, 43,494 people were incarcerated in facilities not managed by regional health ...