The Indiana Women's Prison's Breann Leath Maternal Child Health Unit allows pregnant inmates to stay with their children, providing them with a nursery, clinic, and other amenities, while also helping to prevent recidivism.

Reentry Sisters helps formerly incarcerated women achieve stability by providing support, education and opportunities.

Most of us only know what prison life looks like thanks to movies and TV shows — and those tend to exaggerate almost everything. In reality, a lot of what people believe about prison is a mix of myths, half-truths, and pure fiction. Today, we took a deep ...

As Christmas approaches in a women's prison, the decorations and trees become brighter and fill up more of the available space, covering up blank walls and distracting the eye from harsh lighting and a maze of corridors. The women have taken part in ...

California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws, until now. Dena Hernandez, who served 13 years in prison, was resentenced and released in 2024.Credit...Michelle Groskopf for The New ...

California ministry sponsors compromise bill, arguing that “one community’s safety cannot come at the cost of another’s.” In 2008, while Amie Ichikawa was serving her sentence at the Central California Women’s Facility for armed kidnapping ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Tucked away in the Central Valley, Central California Women's Facility sits off Highway 99 ...