The third edition of The Mabel Bassett Balance includes a story about what it’s like to be in prison as a teenager, an ...

MCLOUD, Okla. (KFOR) – 20 women inside Mabel Bassett, Oklahoma’s women’s prison, have been working for the past several months to earn their cosmetology and barbering license. They have been working ...

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 ...

A hands-on program certifying incarcerated women as heavy equipment operators offers a model for closing labor gaps and ...

The Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles plans to offer a residential rehabilitation facility for women like the Perry ...

These changes have included a range of new initiatives at Edna Mahan that center gender-responsive approaches in officer training and in service provision, and, most notably, the governor’s decision ...

Tucked away in the Central Valley, Central California Women's Facility sits off Highway 99 between Fresno and Merced. Farmland surrounds much of the prison, and visitors are rare. The 640-acre ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Starting over after prison is hard. Olivia Perez was released after a 15-month sentence during the COVID-19 pandemic. Even with family to support her, it was still a tough ...

California ministry sponsors compromise bill, arguing that “one community’s safety cannot come at the cost of another’s.” In 2008, while Amie Ichikawa was serving her sentence at the Central ...

Black women account for 83% of those paying off prison fees. It is no secret that Black people are disproportionately incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails, but a new report reveals another burden ...

Women in Michigan's only prison for females were, per policy, video-recorded on corrections officers' body cameras while they were nude during routine strip searches and while showering and using ...