This is part of the “Confronting the Women’s Incarceration Crisis” series, where we examine what is driving more women into the system and explore ways to reverse the trend. Read the introduction and ...

What's life like for the 15,000 women behind bars in Mexico? In many ways, it's far worse than you might think.

It is the women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Saline where inmates and former inmates are alleging some pretty ...

Butte-Silver Bow’s top official sees virtually no community support for hosting a new women’s prison, so responding to a Montana Department of Corrections query about it might be a waste of time. But ...

A new investigation finds sexual abuse inside Idaho’s women’s prisons has been widespread — and largely ignored. Over the ...

Netflix unexpectedly found a new hit last month with the Argentine prison drama In the Mud. The streamer had a lot of success with its prior women-in-prison series, Orange is the New Black. But make ...

An indictment against more than a dozen people who worked at the now shuttered Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for women were dismissed Thursday by a judge in Hunterdon County. The employees, ...

Lawmakers in South Carolina are debating what would be the strictest abortion ban in America, and if passed as is, would threaten women who get abortions with 30 years in prison. The state senate’s ...

The defense secretary raised the issue suggesting women were getting into combat not because they met high standards, but because they were given a pass. By John Ismay Reporting from Washington Bobbie ...