Judy Brossard had no idea how large an undertaking it would be when she and two friends were approached 15 years ago to knit ...

A woman serving 20 to 45 years in prison argued that incarcerating women during childbearing years violates reproductive ...

Despite having some of the nation’s lowest crime rates, Idaho incarcerates more women per capita than any other state. Women ...

Last Friday afternoon, Kara Sternquist, a trans woman in custody at a federal women’s prison in Fort Worth, Texas, was taken from her unit. A guard told Sternquist that she had an unexpected ...

After three years of planning and retrofitting, the women’s prison at Vandalia is expected to open a nursery in February that can serve up to 14 mothers and their babies for 18 months at a time.

A 66-year-old woman was sentenced Thursday to 28 to 56 years in prison for killing her former domestic partner in Rochester in 2023.

But they represent an outsize portion of federal inmates, especially among female prisoners: 15 percent of women in prison are transgender. There are 750 transgender men out of about 144,000 male ...

An American woman who was tried in three killings before disappearing from a prison in Mexico more than 50 years ago has died in Canada, where she was living under an ...

Several of the victim's loved ones addressed the court as Haydee Rivera-Nadeau was sentenced.