A female prison warden has been charged with raping an inmate holed up inside a men’s jail. Johnesha Rucker, 28, was nabbed ...

In a few short years, 1 in 3 incarcerated people will be over 50. But prisons are not equipped to handle the aging population ...

A former medical staffer at a now-shuttered federal women’s prison in California has been sentenced, marking the final ...

In the spring of 2023 Jennifer Barela returned to her cell at the Central California Women’s Facility (ccwf) in Chowchilla to find “a large man” sitting there. Her new cellmate had been sentenced to ...

There are more than 1,000 women at SCI Muncy, one of only two women’s prisons in Pennsylvania; About 150 of those women are serving life without parole sentences. Nationally, more than half of the ...

Women’s incarceration has increased by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in jails or prisons in the ...

The report has prompted a renewed concern by immigrant and inmate advocates about future plans for the property.

The entrepreneur and reality star teamed up with the Reform Alliance and the Ladies of Hope Ministries to provide grants for ...

In October, New Jersey officials had a ceremonial groundbreaking for the replacement of Edna Mahan Women’s Correctional ...