A Justice Department report documents California's failure to protect incarcerated women from sexual assault going back decades.

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Starting 2026 with a Women’s Issue honors the many roles women play in the prison system — from staff to incarcerated individuals. Women behind bars have access to fewer educational and growth ...

The U.S. Department of Justice determined that California’s two women’s prisons systematically failed to protect incarcerated ...

The authors want to inform people in women’s prisons about their rights. “There’s no way to survive in there unless we know what our rights are.” Aminah Elster recalls being told to avoid the ...

BOISE (InvestigateWest) — As a result of InvestigateWest reporting that exposed sexual abuse of women by Idaho prison staff, lawmakers ordered an independent probe into the state’s handling of those ...

The first episode of “Dying on the Inside: Women Lifers at Muncy Prison” takes listeners inside Pennsylvania’s largest women’s prison. This episode is from Dying on the Inside: Women Lifers at Muncy ...

As a result of InvestigateWest reporting that exposed sexual abuse of women by Idaho prison staff, lawmakers ordered an independent probe into the state’s handling of those allegations. During a ...

The authors want to inform people in women’s prisons about their rights. “There’s no way to survive in there unless we know what our rights are.” Ad Policy A woman reads a book while in the infirmary ...