Amid the celebrations of International Women’s Day, I’ll be thinking of those 3,499 women in England and Wales who will be spending the day in prison. There will be colourful displays in ...

If Prison Break had been a one-and-done limited series it would have secured a higher placing on this list. As it stands, ...

Tucked away in the Central Valley, Central California Women's Facility sits off Highway 99 between Fresno and Merced. Farmland surrounds much of the prison, and visitors are rare. The 640-acre ...

“My God, you also handed my son freedom,” said Patricia Cortes when she left El Buen Pastor prison on September 17, 2024. She had hoped to be able to guarantee her son’s food and health upon ...

Transgender inmates who were moved from a women's prison to an all-male facility, after President Donald Trump's executive order mandating inmates live in facilities corresponding to their ...

The Paper Trail is an in-house newspaper written and edited by incarcerated people at Central California Women’s Facility. Its supporters say it's the first effort of its kind at a women's ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Kansas’ only women’s prison in Topeka is once again approaching full capacity, continuing a decades-long trend of rising female incarceration rates. Before the COVID-19 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...