The audit also found that 65% of jails holding state female inmates failed to guarantee feminine hygiene products at no cost to all incarcerated women, which is required by law for state offenders.

COLUMBUS — The Ohio House passed a bipartisan bill Wednesday that would require state prisons, as well as city and county jails, to provide free menstrual hygiene products to women inmates.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio House passed a bipartisan bill Wednesday that would require state prisons, as well as city and county jails, to provide free menstrual hygiene products to women inmates.

Sentencing for these offenses, which considers the nature of the crime and criminal histories, can disproportionately put pregnant women inmates in harm's way. The Prison Policy Initiative ...

Live in that courtroom they are getting us the latest detail. Two women accused of helping three inmates who escaped the Orleans Parish jail were in court Thursday. A magistrate judge set bond for ...

Two women have been arrested for allegedly helping some of the 10 inmates who busted out of a New Orleans prison — including an accused murderer — as the manhunt for five of the escapees ...

May 21 (UPI) --Two women are facing charges of assisting 10 inmates escape from a New Orleans jail as five remain on the run, Louisiana State Police said Wednesday. Courtnie Harris, 32 ...

Two New Orleans area women accused of helping inmates after they escaped the Orleans Parish jail were arrested this week, according to the Louisiana State Police. Slidell resident Corvanntay ...

The Montana Department of Corrections on Monday moved 50 inmates housed at the Montana Women’s Prison in Billings to the Riverside Special Needs Unit in Boulder as part of the effort to clear up ...

Flores, like many transgender inmates, through the use of estrogen, has grown breasts, which will not reduce in size even if hormone replacement therapy is delayed. Some of the women have had ...

Female inmates, their families, and legal advocates worry that male prisoners adopt a transgender identity just to get access to the women’s facilities, where they can threaten women’s safety ...