Women charged with a crime in Senegal are at the mercy of a slow judicial process and prisons that may lack basic supplies.

At the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) in Gig Harbor, dozens of women are working to reshape their futures one ...

California’s incarcerated population has aged rapidly over the past 30 years. A new report recommends pathways for release.

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 ...

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 ...

States are building new women's prisons as addiction, tougher sentencing and high recidivism drive rising incarceration.

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 ...

As Christmas approaches in a women's prison, the decorations and trees become brighter and fill up more of the available space, covering up blank walls and distracting the eye from harsh lighting and ...