Maria Christina Hendricks, 53, was sentenced Wednesday to three years behind bars for possessing other people's personal ...

Clearly you had a leading role. I accept that Nazir recruited you, but you were the gunwoman," the judge told Betro in court ...

It is difficult to find work if you've been incarcerated. Outside Seattle, one women's prison is trying to give inmates a better chance by training some of them for nontraditional jobs.

California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws, until now.

Chandra Bozelko, the 43-year-old blogger behind the site Prison Diaries, had a very different experience from Piper's in a Connecticut high-security women's prison from 2007 to 2014.

Women in Denver prison bond through substance use recovery amid growing struggle Colorado prisons are battling a growing number of inmates struggling with substance use disorder.

Drama classes help women in prison heal from struggles that led to confinement.

The continued lack of mental, emotional, and social health programming for women in prison during the COVID-19 pandemic may actually cause the virus’s most devastating and long-lasting health ...

Data from 15 states reveal that female inmates are disciplined at higher rates than men for smaller infractions of prison rules — often with harsh consequences.