Tucked in a residential neighborhood of bungalows and crape myrtle trees, the federal women’s prison in Bryan, Texas, doesn’t look like a traditional lockup. The women live in dormitory-style rooms ...

SAN FRANCISCO - October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and a newly released study from Stanford surveyed women incarcerated for killing their abusers. The head researcher says the findings help ...

California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws, until now. Dena Hernandez, who served 13 years in prison, was resentenced and ...

For too many women, prison is “as good as it gets”. New research based on interviews with 80 female prisoners in Western Australia reveals most of these women were “criminalised” by circumstances ...