“And I just think it sends a horrible message that we’re allowing women to live in a squalor, in a hell hole, while we focus on building another facility for men,” England said. Elledge said she was ...

No other place in the world incarcerates women at a higher rate than South Dakota, according to research by a prison-focused nonprofit, and the construction of a second women’s prison in the state ...

Rapid City, S.D. (KELO) — Governor Larry Rhoden stopped by the currently under-construction Women’s Prison in Rapid City earlier today to discuss the progress. The new Women’s Prison will house up to ...

Razor wire lines the recreation yard at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington on Aug. 27, 2024. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The Essex town planning commission ...

In a desert outside Iran’s capital, Tehran, lies one of the largest women’s prisons in the world. Several thousand women are believed to be incarcerated in Qarchak Prison, which is notorious for ...

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 ...

DETROIT, MI – A federal judge ruled Michigan’s prison system is not protected by qualified immunity in a class action lawsuit claiming it is failing to address claims of moldy, deteriorating ...

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 ...