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

South Dakota leads the nation in female incarceration. A new $87M women’s prison in Rapid City aims to expand rehabilitation ...

About 338 of every 100,000 women are behind bars in the state. Officials say the new facility could finally curb the nation’s ...

A federal judge granted an order separating transgender inmates from female detainees at a Texas correctional facility for ...

Under the temporary restraining order, prison officials are barred from allowing male inmates to enter or remain in ...

The Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Nation report on the unseen burdens women, especially of color, bear when ...

Historically, women receive far shorter prison sentences for the same crimes as men. And yet, here are a few examples of women serving the longest prison sentences ever.

A federal judge has sided with two female inmates who sued a Texas prison that put them in danger by forcing them to be ...

The director of Idaho's prison system has laid out plans to increase protections against sexual abuse of inmates and to increase accountability for those accused. The move comes ...

YPSILANTI, MI — Nicole Ortiz-Garcia, 39, and Jacara Moore, 27, woke up hours before dawn to start their days as Eastern Michigan University students. With their studies, came promise, hope. For them, ...

After several random attacks on women led to months of fear in Chicago's Loop, victims are starting to see justice as one so-called serial puncher was sentenced to prison Thursday and charges were ...

Ghislaine Maxwell, the close associate and convicted accomplice of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, intends to ask President Donald Trump to commute her prison sentence, according to a letter from ...