A former correctional officer was sentenced to 18 months in prison for illegally buying guns for a drug ring leader. Desmond Maxwell pleaded guilty to straw-purchasing firearms for Nathaniel Hatcher, ...

A $310 million New Jersey women’s prison is scheduled to start construction by the end of the year. February 27, 2026 A $310 million New Jersey women’s prison is designed as a “more humane” ...

A bill that would allow pregnant women sentenced to incarceration to defer their sentences until after the birth of their child recently advanced out of the Alabama House Judiciary Committee. “Alabama ...

A season of historic triumph had its uneasy moments. The UCLA women’s basketball team is about to share that range of emotion with a national audience. In “You See L.A.,” an hourlong documentary ...

Lansing — Mold is a persistent problem inside Michigan's only prison for women, and employees made bets over whether inmates there would commit suicide, according to testimony presented Tuesday to the ...

LANSING, Mich. (WXYZ) — Former employees and whistleblowers testified Tuesday before a Michigan House Oversight Committee hearing in Lansing, raising serious ...

Momentum is finally building to address longstanding and systemic problems at Michigan’s only women’s prison as state lawmakers, local elected officials, and activists demand answers about mold, ...

Margaret Sines holds her 1-month-old baby Noah as she feeds him in the nursery at the state Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Vandalia, Mo., on Feb. 5, 2026. Sines has ...

LANSING — Inmates frequently miss meals, prescribed medications and programming because of a shortage of working wheelchairs and wheelchair attendants at Michigan's only prison for women, according to ...

Taiwanese prison drama “Sunshine Women’s Choir” has become the highest-grossing local film in Taiwan‘s box-office history, surpassing NT$545 million ($17.3 million) on Feb. 14 and dethroning the ...

The Princess of Wales was thanked for her "kind donation" Phil Noble-WPA Pool/Getty Kate Middleton donated a Catherine's Rose to a women's prison she visited The Princess of Wales, who is the patron ...

Two frustrated women’s advocacy groups have launched a billboard truck campaign across California, demanding attention to concerning rise in trans prisoners raping women. The campaign, organized by ...