RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A group of Brazilian women behind bars applied makeup, donned gowns and competed in a singing contest ...

A lawsuit in California has kept incarcerated people who were granted their freedom in prison for an indeterminate period.

Most of us came here with nothing. No skills, no direction. Now we know that when we leave, we can survive without going back to crime ...

A civilized society protects women and children from men who seek to harm them. Yet under the banner of progress, child rapists, serial sex-offenders, and wife-killers can now secure access to one of ...

Women’s incarceration has increased by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in jails or prisons in the ...

PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) -- A man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after shooting two women, ultimately killing one of them. The Pueblo Police Department said that ...

December means Christmas in the doggy day room at Logan Correctional Center, Illinois’ largest state prison for women. On a recent visit, there were dogs dressed in holiday sweaters or reindeer ...

A photo of Martha Perez is found in a bin of family photos at her family's home in Prescott Valley, Arizona, on Sunday, March 9, 2025. Courtney Pedroza for the Marshall Project Evangelina Perez lost ...

Evangelina Perez lost count of the number of times her mother, Martha Perez, called her from federal prison, gasping for breath because she had missed dialysis treatments for her kidney failure. At 59 ...

Over a week after their emergency transfer from a Baltimore jail, women awaiting trial at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women remained held in restrictive housing. “Some of these ladies ...

The Dublin City Council on Tuesday night is poised to pass a resolution that opposes turning the now-closed women's prison – FCI Dublin – into any kind of detention facility in the future. The ...