Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ashley Anderson, a former senior officer specialist at Federal Prison Camp Bryan.Photo composite by Bethany Mollenkof for NBC and ...

Send fewer women to prison. That’s the consensus across the political spectrum. It is part of Andy Burnham’s plan to free up prison places for men. The Conservatives have said they are sympathetic ...

For too many women, prison is "as good as it gets." New research based on interviews with 80 female prisoners in Western Australia reveals most of these women were "criminalized" by circumstances ...

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 ...

Tucked in a residential neighborhood of bungalows and crape myrtle trees, the federal women’s prison in Bryan, Texas, doesn’t look like a traditional lockup. The women live in dormitory-style rooms ...

This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Tucked in a residential neighborhood of bungalows and ...