Early in her second trimester, Linda Acoff was taken into custody for failing to complete court-ordered mental health treatment. After three weeks in the Cuyahoga County Jail in Columbus, Ohio, she ...
Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, D-Oakland, speaks about Assembly Constitutional Amendment 7, authored by Assemblyman Corey Jackson’s, D-Moreno Valley, in the chamber Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, at the state ...
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 ...
A judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order mandating that transgender women in federal prison be housed in male facilities and the government stop funding their ...
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Two Montana communities have expressed substantial interest in becoming the location for a new state women’s prison facility following a Department of Corrections request for information. Two more ...
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