HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — It was after midnight when she crept down the narrow, dimly lit stairs carrying a bag of dirty laundry. She crossed under a patchwork of pipes and ducts to the far back corner of ...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — It was after midnight when she crept down the narrow, dimly lit stairs carrying a bag of dirty laundry. She crossed under a patchwork of pipes and ducts to the far back corner ...

On a spring day earlier this year, the prison gymnasium at the Maryland Correctional Institution for women, about 25 minutes outside Baltimore, was decorated in blue and yellow balloons and flowers.

A pub company has opened the 'UK's first' hospitality academy at a prison in Cheshire. According to Marston's, The Hope and ...

After a series of lawsuits and sexual abuse convictions of prison officials, the Federal Bureau of Prisons has announced plans to close the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, Calif. (Ben ...

LOCKHART, Texas (KXAN) — More than 70 state prison inmates earned their high school diplomas on Friday at the Gregory S. Coleman Unit. The Coleman Unit is home to a unique program hosted by the ...

“My God, you also handed my son freedom,” said Patricia Cortes when she left El Buen Pastor prison on September 17, 2024. She had hoped to be able to guarantee her son’s food and health upon leaving ...

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

Lansing — Women inside a Michigan prison were subjected to trauma and "institutional betrayal" by a state policy that allowed them to be recorded by guards' body cameras while they underwent strip ...

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