Women are often imprisoned for nonviolent crimes; their pathways into prison reflect high rates of childhood trauma.

LONDON, Dec 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The number of women in jail globally has soared by 17% in a decade, despite leaders' pledges to put fewer women behind bars for petty crimes and the ...

The number of self-harm incidents at a women's prison in Surrey has increased by nearly 20% in a year, a report has found. The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) said a high turnover of prisoners at ...

Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried or gave birth into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors.

At least 20 women being held in a San Francisco jail say a group of sheriff’s deputies earlier this year ordered women to strip down in front of each other while the deputies laughed and filmed them ...

San Francisco county jail facilities at 425 7th St. on Oct. 22, 2025. Photo by Abigail Vân Neely. Members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors called for action and accountability on Friday after ...

ATHENS — One morning in the courthouse, Selina Watts messaged her boss in tears. Drug court demanded another test, and she wouldn’t make it to work on time. She feared the job she’d just landed would ...

A group of women incarcerated at the Allegheny County Jail is helping dogs get ready for adoption, and the dogs are helping them get prepared for re-entry into life. Just a few months back, Leia, a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A strip search of a woman in the La Plata County jail usually went like this: undress, lift your right breast so a deputy can look underneath. Lift your left ...

A group of female inmates in San Francisco claims sheriff’s deputies filmed them during a mass jail strip-search with male officers watching and cracking jokes. Nearly 20 women have accused San ...

Legal claims filed with the city allege at least 19 women at a San Francisco jail were forced to strip and be searched in front of sheriff’s deputies who taunted them and filmed the ordeal. Many of ...

REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio — A woman spent the night in a Franklin County jail after police in Reynoldsburg wrongfully charged her for a crime she had nothing to do with. In July, a Reynoldsburg police ...