Women are often imprisoned for nonviolent crimes; their pathways into prison reflect high rates of childhood trauma.

NBC Bay Area was granted rare access inside Central California Women's Facility (CCWF) in Chowchilla. It is the largest of two women prisons in the state. CCWF is located in rural Madera County. On ...

INDIANA — Discussions about how to reduce crime are constantly happening in communities across the state of Indiana. One nonprofit that works in women’s correctional facilities in Indianapolis, ...

Although the meeting with the Department of Justice isn't occurring there, eyes are turning to the state capital's federal women's prison that houses Ghislaine Maxwell, former girlfriend to convicted ...

During Florida’s blistering summer months, Morin C.* says the heat in his prison cell becomes so sticky and oppressive, he sometimes showers seven times a day just to cope. The 41-year-old is ...

Listen here for this year's Prisoncast! holiday show for conversations on grief, money and spending the holidays away from ...

Most prisons feel cold the moment you step inside, but at a women’s facility in Michigan, something small and unexpected ...

A Georgia mother is demanding answers after her 28-year-old daughter, a mother herself, serving a short prison sentence for shoplifting, was found dead at Lee Arrendale State Prison earlier this month ...

Female prisoners who look after livestock at their open prison have named some of the pigs after staff at the establishment, the BBC reported last week. At HMP East Sutton Park, near Maidstone in ...