The Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Nation report on the unseen burdens women, especially of color, bear when ...

Women are often imprisoned for nonviolent crimes; their pathways into prison reflect high rates of childhood trauma.

A local organization offering connection, education and entertainment to women in prison. Chicago Books to Women in Prison sends free books to women and trans nationwide. Becca Greenstein joins us ...

Prison doulas and legislative interventions can be a lifeline for incarcerated pregnant women. But the most important solution is to abolish prison births altogether. After utilizing a doula while ...

Louisiana’s only women's prison formally opened Thursday, after nine years of temporary housing arrangements for over 1,000 female inmates who were displaced by a devastating 2016 flood. The brand-new ...

Staffers in Washington’s only women’s prison repeatedly used excessive force on incarcerated people, including multiple instances in which corrections officers inappropriately used pepper spray, even ...

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 ...