Women are often imprisoned for nonviolent crimes; their pathways into prison reflect high rates of childhood trauma.

NBC Bay Area was granted rare access inside Central California Women's Facility (CCWF) in Chowchilla. It is the largest of two women prisons in the state. CCWF is located in rural Madera County. On ...

Amie Ichikawa, founder of Woman to Woman, details how California’s SB 132 — the Transgender Respect, Agency and Dignity Act — has allowed men who self-identify as female to be housed in women’s ...

Prison is meant to serve as a punishment, not a death sentence executed by black mold, abuse and indifference. Even though the state of Michigan was the first state to abolish the death penalty in ...

Listen here for this year's Prisoncast! holiday show for conversations on grief, money and spending the holidays away from ...

INDIANA — Discussions about how to reduce crime are constantly happening in communities across the state of Indiana. One nonprofit that works in women’s correctional facilities in Indianapolis, ...

Governor Larry Rhoden stopped by the currently under-construction Women’s Prison in Rapid City earlier today to discuss the ...

Although the meeting with the Department of Justice isn't occurring there, eyes are turning to the state capital's federal women's prison that houses Ghislaine Maxwell, former girlfriend to convicted ...

A Georgia mother is demanding answers after her 28-year-old daughter, a mother herself, serving a short prison sentence for shoplifting, was found dead at Lee Arrendale State Prison earlier this month ...