Women hoping to visit their loved ones at New York prisons are being turned away after scanners pick up what they say are ...

A former prison governor warned there were “no women’s prisons in Scotland” due to a policy which will be subject to a judicial review next month. Rhona Hotchkiss, a former governor of now-closed HMP ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The Women’s Justice Institute on Thursday announced the launch of a new women-focused Community Reentry Support Center, backed by a $375,000 grant from the Department of Family and Support Services.

New Jersey lawmakers advanced legislation Thursday to expand protections for imprisoned women in New Jersey, after brutality and sex abuse scandals drove Gov. Phil Murphy to order the troubled Edna ...

The state Department of Corrections, which has struggled to maintain workers in the past, must hire 133 staff members for the new women's prison in Rapid City as it takes a new approach to drug ...

An advocate for reform in women’s prisons is calling for an overhaul of federal law following a recent report highlighting serious allegations of harassment and sexual assault at a Massachusetts women ...

Some members of the group are awaiting trial; some are serving short sentences. In the meantime, with little else to do, they have intense discussions about literature. By Liz Krieger The plastic ...