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Staffers in Washington’s only women’s prison repeatedly used excessive force on incarcerated people, including multiple instances in which corrections officers inappropriately used pepper spray, even ...

California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws, until now. Dena Hernandez, who served 13 years in prison, was resentenced and ...

Prison reform advocates are ringing the alarm bells about the conditions at a state correctional facility after several recent deaths. It just might not be the one you’re thinking of. Activists and ...

A woman died suddenly May 17 at Michigan's only prison for women, just four days after another inmate died. A lawmaker wants ...

Tucked in a residential neighborhood of bungalows and crape myrtle trees, the federal women’s prison in Bryan, Texas, doesn’t look like a traditional lockup. The women live in dormitory-style rooms ...