When the Indiana Women’s Prison opened at the intersection of New York, Randolph and Michigan streets in 1873, it sat south ...

The new Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women, a $160 million facility in St. Gabriel, is now open after three years of ...

For nine years, female inmates have been scattered across Louisiana in temporary housing arrangements. Now, they have their own brand-new facility.

Nazi, convicted as a man, now plans to enter a women’s prison and is demanding kosher meals, claiming to be a devout Jew.

Gov. Greg Gianforte toured a correctional facility in Boulder Tuesday that serves as overflow space for the Women's Prison. State Corrections director Brian Gootkin says the Riverside facility is ...

California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws, until now.

The Department of Corrections wants to reduce the number of its inmates held in county jails around the state.