I Will Take A Men's Over Women's Any Day Of The Week. Shit Is Scary": ... That being said, women constitute only around 2 - 9% of the total prison population in various countries.

The spike, which hasn’t yet hit pre-pandemic levels, is driven by an increase in people detained while awaiting trial, ...

This number is trending upward: between 1980 and 2022, the female prison population in the U.S. grew by more than 585 percent, more than twice the growth rate of the male prison population.

Women on Long Island face unique postprison job struggles, but a local nonprofit and university partnership offers free health care training to bridge the gap.

In 2008, while Amie Ichikawa was serving her sentence at the Central California Women’s Facility for armed kidnapping, assault, and drug possession, she heard about a disturbing new arrival.

In total, women make up just 4% of the state's prison population. For these reasons and more, the prison in Chowchilla seems an unlikely place to have its own newspaper.