The 12 women who earned bachelor’s degrees at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in September participated in the largest graduation so far by the Michigan Department of Corrections.

On June 30, just as many of her constituents and legislators were about to begin the July 4 holiday weekend, Gov. Maura Healey announced a massive $360 million plan to “re-imagine” Framingham women’s ...

RAJAMAHENDRAVARAM: The Special Prison for Women in Rajamahendravaram stands tall, contrasting sharply with common perceptions of jails. This jail resembles a horticultural garden, an ashram or even a ...

Patients at Carswell medical prison in Texas describe unsanitary conditions, missed treatments and substandard care.

Alabama is spending $1.25 billion to build a 4,000-bed prison for men intended to help with the crowding, violence, weapons, and drugs that plague the state’s aging and understaffed correctional ...

California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws, until now. Headway California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated ...

The New Jersey Department of Corrections has broken ground for a woman's prison in Burlington County. The 410-bed Chesterfield facility, expected to open in 2028, has an estimated cost of $312 million ...

Louisiana’s only women's prison formally opened Thursday, after nine years of temporary housing arrangements for over 1,000 female inmates who were displaced by a devastating 2016 flood. The brand-new ...

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 ...