Patients at Carswell medical prison in Texas describe unsanitary conditions, missed treatments and substandard care.

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, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Women are the fastest-growing population of incarcerated people. And if Republicans ...

More than two dozen women in Idaho prisons say guards have sexually abused them and faced little or no consequences, according to new reporting. The nonprofit newsroom InvestigateWest found at least ...

When the Bureau of Justice Statistics released the first-ever national look at reproductive issues in state and federal prisons in April, it answered some long-standing questions, while raising a few ...

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 ...

NORRISTOWN — Saying she has a duty to protect the public, a judge ensured that a Philadelphia woman will join her boyfriend in prison for at least two decades for helping him operate a multi-county ...

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After several random attacks on women led to months of fear in Chicago's Loop, victims are starting to see justice as one so-called serial puncher was sentenced to prison Thursday and charges were ...

FINALLY GOT TO HEAR THESE WORDS. THEREFORE, WE ARE GRANTING YOU THE PRIVILEGE OF PAROLE. ON MAY 2ND, 2008, HERNANDEZ HAD JUST COME OUT OF A BAR TO FIND A GROUP STANDING NEAR HER PARKED CAR AT CITY ...

While men historically receive the majority of extreme prison sentences, some women around the world have faced extraordinarily long terms for crimes ranging from murder and fraud to political ...

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