Although there are more men than women in prison, the growth rate of female imprisonment since 1980 has been twice that of men. Female incarceration in the U.S. has increased by more than 585 percent, ...

INDIANAPOLIS — When the Indiana Women’s Prison opened at the intersection of New York, Randolph and Michigan streets in 1873, it sat south of Indianapolis’ first “suburb”: Woodruff Place. It was ...

MCI-Framingham, Massachusetts’ only state-run prison for women, is antiquated, inefficient, and inadequate. But Governor Maura Healey’s plans for an expensive rebuild of the facility are butting up ...

Although there are more men than women in prison, the growth rate of female imprisonment since 1980 has been twice that of men. Female incarceration in the U.S. has increased by more than 585 percent, ...