California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws, ...

This number continues to rise, increasing at a rate that surpasses the male prison population. That being said, women constitute only around 2 - 9% of the total prison population in various countries.

She believes men and women, regardless of their criminal ... They could eat meals and attend classes with the rest of the prison population, but they would have to live and sleep apart.

Moving the women to a men’s prison would jeopardize their safety ... when they were removed from the general population of women’s prisons and segregated with other transgender women to ...

“If I am eventually placed in men’s general population, I will live in constant ... She was sent to the women’s prison after the DOC established a policy that makes sure transgender ...

The early days of the new Labour government have given prison ... population). Many are mothers and primary caregivers, impacting an estimated 17,000 children annually. Violence in women’s ...

“If I am eventually placed in men’s general population, I will live in constant ... Corrections finally allowed Kim to move to a women’s prison in 2021. “Without the emotional burden ...

women made up barely 4% of the state’s prison population. It’s easy to lose 4% out of 163,000 people. They were overshadowed by what the majority of the prison population — men — needed.

This number is trending upward: between 1980 and 2022, the female prison population ... to convicted men. This distribution can be problematic, particularly for pregnant women, because jails ...

A federal judge in Boston has temporarily blocked prison officials from transferring an incarcerated transgender woman to a men’s facility ... the general population at the women’s prison ...

A longtime teacher at Minnesota’s only women’s prison ... of the men they spend their time with, and we all have freedom of choice, but I guarantee that probably 75 percent of our population ...