InvestigateWest reporting exposed sexual abuse by guards and a system that fails to track the scope of the problem.

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

Audio recordings and records obtained by InvestigateWest reveal incomplete investigations, omitted evidence and questions ...

The article discusses sexual assault, and contains graphic descriptions that may be offensive to some readers. “Guarded by ...

Prison doulas and legislative interventions can be a lifeline for incarcerated pregnant women. But the most important solution is to abolish prison births altogether.

Women in Michigan's only prison for females were, per policy, video-recorded on corrections officers' body cameras while they were nude during routine strip searches and while showering and using ...

California ministry sponsors compromise bill, arguing that “one community’s safety cannot come at the cost of another’s.” In 2008, while Amie Ichikawa was serving her sentence at the Central ...

For too many women, prison is “as good as it gets”. New research based on interviews with 80 female prisoners in Western Australia reveals most of these women were “criminalised” by circumstances ...

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Justine Igo, a former inmate, is the first resident of Pete & Andy’s transitional home in Rhode Island, a program for women at risk of homelessness after prison. The home, a collaboration between St.

It’s “sew far, sew good” at a new job training program for incarcerated women at a state prison in New Jersey.