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

which is a state correctional facility for women. NINA MOINI: You mentioned that you're bringing access to the arts to people who are either in Shakopee or in other prisons or incarcerated.

Meeker County Judge Stephanie Beckman sentenced 27-year-old Jaimee Traylor to 132 months at the women's prison in Shakopee after a Meeker County jury found her guilty of 3rd degree murder last ...

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

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.

Cheryl Thomas, women’s services manager for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, testifies Jan. 15, 2024, about a proposed nursery program at the women's prison under construction in ...

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 ...

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.