Early in her second trimester, Linda Acoff was taken into custody for failing to complete court-ordered mental health treatment. After three weeks in the Cuyahoga County Jail in Columbus, Ohio, she ...

Prison doulas and legislative interventions can be a lifeline for incarcerated pregnant women. But the most important solution is to abolish prison births altogether. After utilizing a doula while ...

Ex-prison governor says there are ‘no women’s prisons in Scotland’ - Rhona Hotchkiss criticised the Scottish Prison Services’ ...

As Christmas approaches in a women's prison, the decorations and trees become brighter and fill up more of the available space, covering up blank walls and distracting the eye from harsh lighting and ...

For too many women, prison is “as good as it gets”. New research based on interviews with 80 female prisoners in Western Australia reveals most of these women were “criminalised” by circumstances ...

Two Montana communities have expressed substantial interest in becoming the location for a new state women’s prison facility following a Department of Corrections request for information. Two more ...

Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, D-Oakland, speaks about Assembly Constitutional Amendment 7, authored by Assemblyman Corey Jackson’s, D-Moreno Valley, in the chamber Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, at the state ...