Most of us only know what prison life looks like thanks to movies and TV shows — and those tend to exaggerate almost ...

A woman pleaded no contest to first-degree intentional homicide on Monday. Prosecutors accused her of beating her cellmate to death in 2024. She was serving a two-year sentence for battery out of ...

Patients at Carswell medical prison in Texas describe unsanitary conditions, missed treatments and substandard care.

A man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after shooting two women, ultimately killing one ...

In Michigan, one in 11 Black women is in prison for life without parole sentences. Credit: Shutterstock.com More than 500 incarcerated women at Michigan’s only women’s prison are suing the state for ...

BOISE, Idaho (KIFI) — In June 2024, Andrea Weiskircher thought her life was over. She was sobbing in a jail cell in Boise thinking about what she had just done. Encouraged by a former Idaho Department ...

While men historically receive the majority of extreme prison sentences, some women around the world have faced extraordinarily long terms for crimes ranging from murder and fraud to political ...

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 ...

Incarcerated trainers in the Helping PAWS program at Logan Correctional Center raise puppies that will later work as mobility assistance dogs.