According to The Sentencing Project, between 1980 and 2022, the number of incarcerated women in the U.S. increased by more than 585%.

Correction: This story has been corrected to reflect that this is not the first women’s prison in the state of North Dakota.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The new Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women is the first prison facility to be built in the state in over 35 years. Over $160 million, and more than three years later, ...

The Boston College Prison Education Program, already the largest higher education prison program in the state, is expanding to serve women incarcerated at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution in ...

Formerly incarcerated women will lead a march on Saturday, Sept. 13, from the Framingham Centre Common to MCI-Framingham to protest the state's plan to invest $360 million in renovating the women's ...

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 ...

They used a drone to drop cellphones into a Georgia prison yard, where an inmate coordinated a multistate scheme largely aimed at women who were medical workers, prosecutors said. By Rylee Kirk Four ...

Razor wire lines the recreation yard at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington on Aug. 27, 2024. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The Essex town planning commission ...