Illinois prisons start a pilot program offering 775 free phone minutes monthly to inmates, aiming to strengthen family ties ...

An Illinois pilot program will give prisoners 775 free call minutes monthly to strengthen family ties and rehabilitation.

In a preview for the season three premiere of Oxygen’s Snapped: Behind Bars, convicted killers Michael Schallert and Afton ...

According to The Sentencing Project, between 1980 and 2022, the number of incarcerated women in the U.S. increased by more than 585%.

A women’s prison in Illinois currently houses a man who murdered his mother in 1995 and hid her body in a bathtub, documents show. Logan Correction Center officially became a female-only prison in ...

The three-bedroom Daffodil House will serve up to three women at a time. It is operated by Beyond the Walls The Movement, a ...

Although there are more men than women in prison, the growth rate of female imprisonment since 1980 has been twice that of men. Female incarceration in the U.S. has increased by more than 585 percent, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Women are the fastest-growing population of incarcerated people. And if Republicans ...

The report points to systemic problems in the way federal prisons treat women. A government watchdog agency is pointing to systemic problems in the way federal prisons treat the women in their custody ...