Women are often imprisoned for nonviolent crimes; their pathways into prison reflect high rates of childhood trauma.

Inside the halls of Nevada’s only women’s prison, the word ‘Cosmetology’ is painted on a light blue door. The room houses a job-training program that for a while, inmates said was the only one ...

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 ...

A Bureau of Prisons policy that, earlier this week, called on transgender women in federal prisons to hand over any female-identifying clothing and other commissary items, like women's razors and hair ...