While the number of women prisoners is increasing, the services available to them are not — especially regarding mental health.
In the wake of the Senate investigation, the Justice Department may expand compassionate release to victims and survivors of sexual abuse in federal prisons.
This lack of access isn’t just inconvenient — it endangers inmates’ safety.
As the world observes the two-year mark of the global pandemic, we take stock of the devastating impact on incarcerated women in the U.S.
There has been a 52% increase of Latinas incarcerated nationally
Advocates hope that the aptly named criminal justice law, which is limited in scope, could lead to broader reforms.
Punishment in prison is a gendered phenomenon, just not in the way you might expect.
As women used words like “menstruation” and “heavy flow” while describing the humiliating and degrading experience of having insufficient sanitary products in prison, the nine, all-male members of the Arizona legislature’s Committee on Military, Veterans and Regulatory Affairs bristled and shifted in their seats.