Women in prison

Transgender inmate sues prison over religious rights || A transgender inmate is suing a North Carolina prison, saying it’s blocking her from practicing witchcraft. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/25/transgender-inmate-sues-prison-over-religious-righ/

Incarcerated women are 30 times more likely to be raped than free women. Even though women account for less than 10% of inmates, their reports account for three quarters of

At least 75 inmates have died inside the Pedrinhas Prison Complex in Maranhao State since 2013, according to the National Council of Justice. 60 were killed, and three beheaded, that very year.

Though it’s home to only 5 percent of the world’s female population, the U.S. claims nearly 30 percent of the world’s women in prison. That's according...

This woman was force-fed after going on hunger strike

Over two months, photographer Cosmin Bumbut‘s prison workshop has amassed some 14,000 images, all taken within a Romanian women’s penitentiary by 14 inmates sharing six Canon PowerShot cameras, with basic photography instruction. These women…

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Beth Fowler, Laura Prepon, Abigail Savage, Constance Shulman, Yael Stone, Taylor Schilling, Uzo Aduba, and Adrienne C. Moore in Orange Is the New Black (2013)

I spent a day in a rural Iowa jail to learn about what life is like for inmates there. Following is the story as it ran in the Guthrie Center Times and the Guthrie County Vedette. As I woke up for …

We were recently fortunate enough to speak to Alison, an ex-inmate who had been incarcerated in both HMP Bronzefield and Holloway – two female prisons in the UK. Of course, the reputation of HMP Holloway is formidable, and recently, interest has surged in the prison, thanks largely to Channel 5’s interesting documentary on the prison and its more famous inmates.