Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A former medical staffer at a now-shuttered federal women's prison in California has been sentenced, marking the final criminal ...

From college-in-prison programs to job training, women are building futures that punishment alone was never designed to create. The College-in-Prison Program is a partnership between Tulane University ...

Tanisha Williams is a Michigan mother of three who has spent more than 15 years in prison after helping authorities prosecute the man who, she says, forced her at gunpoint to assist in a homicide.

While many women in the U.S. now have access to more menopause resources than ever before, one group hasn’t benefited from the sea-change: those in prison. For incarcerated women — a population that ...

Nearly one in three women in prison who were charged with murder or manslaughter report experiencing domestic violence, according to journalist Justine van der Leun’s survey of incarcerated women—but ...

On today’s episode of The Infographics Show, we uncover the chilling story of Joanna Dennehy—the most feared woman in prison. Guards dread her, inmates avoid her, and even the toughest criminals step ...

A woman who was an inmate at a South Carolina Department of Corrections prison will spend more time behind bars, according to the 5th Circuit Solicitor’s Office. Alicia Nicole Hicks was convicted on ...

Independent reporting you can trust. Joyce Bell was 77 when her youngest son was arrested and charged with murder, in what he insists was a case of self-defense. In a time of life when many expect to ...