The number of women in jail globally has soared by 17% in a decade, despite leaders' pledges to put fewer women behind bars ...

A California jury found that Beth Fischgrund was wrongfully terminated and defamed after she reported an inmate’s violent ...

A new study found women in Georgia’s justice system often do not get the support they need as victims and are punished ...

The third edition of The Mabel Bassett Balance includes a story about what it’s like to be in prison as a teenager, an ...

The roughly $250 million project is likely to bring hundreds of permanent positions and temporary construction jobs.

Women from 17 different countries are working together to coordinate the global struggle against mass incarceration.

Gender has been long overlooked in Holocaust research. Writing in the late 1970s and early 1980s, early scholars such as Joan Ringelheim and Sybil Milton had to fight for their legitimacy in a field ...