Women charged with a crime in Senegal are at the mercy of a slow judicial process and prisons that may lack basic supplies.

Until the 1980s, an annual prison rodeo offered a chance for men inside to perform and sell albums. Now we’re making them available to you.

A nurse scientist interviewed 29 formerly incarcerated Black men in Philadelphia to understand how they address their mental ...

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 ...

Approximately 150 female inmates were transferred from the Dayton Correctional Institution recently as the facility grapples with the lowest level of correctional officer staffing in Ohio. The ...

Laresha Thornton, a former teacher’s aide at the prison at Women's Huron Valley Prison, described a cruel environment. Credit: Screenshot/Michigan House Oversight Committee Michigan lawmakers from ...

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, ...

A new law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of survivors of domestic violence. Most are still behind bars.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Woking Female Convict Prison opened in 1869 [Woking History Society] Britain's first purpose built women's prison once stood on ...

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 ...