The federal Bureau of Prisons is permanently closing its “rape club” women’s prison in California and will idle six other facilities in a sweeping realignment after years of abuse, decay and ...

Many people in prison rely on federal Pell Grants to pay for college courses. But in most states, women's prisons offer less access to Pell-eligible classes than men’s prisons do.

The federal Bureau of Prisons is permanently closing its “rape club” women’s prison in California and will idle six facilities in a sweeping realignment after years of abuse, decay and ...

The announcement of Dublin’s closure represents an extraordinary acknowledgment by the Bureau of Prisons that its much-promised efforts to improve the culture and environment there have not worked.

Women in Prison Take Home Economics, While Men Take Carpentry Decades after a government report on deep inequity in the vocational offerings of the nation's criminal-justice system, little has ...

Most women in prison are single mothers who've been victims of domestic and sexual violence, typical of the history of women’s incarceration ...

The inmates were found shot or burned to death in the latest spasm of violence in the country’s troubled prison system.

A women's prison in California so plagued by sexual abuse that it was known among inmates and workers as the "rape club" will be closed, the head of the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced Monday ...

MCI-Framingham, Massachusetts’ only state-run prison for women, is antiquated, inefficient, and inadequate. But Governor Maura Healey’s plans for an expensive rebuild of the facility are ...

Gov. Philip D. Murphy said that he would shut down Edna Mahan, New Jersey’s only women’s prison, because of a “long history of abusive incidents.” By Tracey Tully Just over a year ago, the ...