A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order separating transgender inmates from female detainees at a Texas ...

Incarcerated women in the U.S. are routinely punished for menstruating due to prison rules that fail to account for basic ...

Traveling two hours on a Tuesday night to visit someone is light work for Kellie Ann Coats, executive director of the Missouri Women's Council.

Editor’s note: The article discusses sexual assault, and contains graphic descriptions that may be offensive to some readers. “Guarded by Predators” is a new investigative series exposing rape and ...

Speaking to the BBC, Prisons Minister Lord Timpson said there were too many women who were victims of domestic abuse in the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Women are the fastest-growing population of incarcerated people. And if Republicans ...

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 ...

GOODYEAR, AZ (AZFamily) — A good workout can do wonders, but for some people it can take quite the effort to get out of bed and get the gym shoes laced and out the door. That story is the opposite for ...