Manuel Portillo, the former warden at the Southern Desert Correctional Center near Indian Springs, is facing charges after an ...

A civilized society protects women and children from men who seek to harm them. Yet under the banner of progress, child rapists, serial sex-offenders, and wife-killers can now secure access to one of ...

Women’s incarceration has increased by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in jails or prisons in the ...

A photo of Martha Perez is found in a bin of family photos at her family's home in Prescott Valley, Arizona, on Sunday, March 9, 2025. Courtney Pedroza for the Marshall Project Evangelina Perez lost ...

Evangelina Perez lost count of the number of times her mother, Martha Perez, called her from federal prison, gasping for breath because she had missed dialysis treatments for her kidney failure. At 59 ...

The Dublin City Council on Tuesday night is poised to pass a resolution that opposes turning the now-closed women's prison – FCI Dublin – into any kind of detention facility in the future. The ...

As Christmas approaches in a women's prison, the decorations and trees become brighter and fill up more of the available space, covering up blank walls and distracting the eye from harsh lighting and ...

New filings in an ongoing lawsuit against officials at the women’s prison in Lusk point to a 2023 federal audit that found surveillance camera blind spots within the facility and an incomplete ...

The rate of imprisonment for Black women decreased by 69 percent between 2000 and 2023, according to research by The Sentencing Project. The Sentencing Project is an organization that “advocates for ...

Rapid City, S.D. (KELO) — Governor Larry Rhoden stopped by the currently under-construction Women’s Prison in Rapid City earlier today to discuss the progress. The new Women’s Prison will house up to ...