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This Former Women's Prison Inmate Let People Ask Her Anything About Her Experience, And It's Eye-Opening

According to data from the Prison Policy Initiative, more than 1.9 million people in the United States are incarcerated in prisons, local jails, and other detention facilities. Additionally, one in ...
Reason

Pregnant Women in Prison Aren't Getting Care, and No One Is Keeping Track

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 ...
KTVU

The impact of domestic violence on women in prison for killing their abusers

SAN FRANCISCO - October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and a newly released study from Stanford surveyed women incarcerated for killing their abusers. The head researcher says the findings help ...
The New York Times

Prison Reform Left Women Behind. Then Prosecutors Stepped In.

California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws, until now. Headway California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated ...
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Louisiana opens new women’s prison in St. Gabriel

Gov. Jeff Landry, center, a Warden Kristen Thomas cut a ribbon to open the new Louisiana Correctional Institution for Women in St. Gabriel on Aug. 28., 2025. (Governor's office photo) Officials cut ...