California Institution for Women received bachelor's degrees through Cal State LA's Prison Graduation Initiative, marking the ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The new Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women is the first prison facility to be built in the state in over 35 years. Over $160 million, and more than three years later, ...

In the federal prison system, 64% of the women serving time are drug offenders. It’s not that women are committing more crimes today; it’s simply that the penalties have changed and judges are now ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The new Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women, a $160 million facility in St. Gabriel, is now open after three years of construction. State officials, ...

Louisiana’s only women's prison formally opened Thursday, after nine years of temporary housing arrangements for over 1,000 female inmates who were displaced by a devastating 2016 flood. The brand-new ...

Formerly incarcerated women will lead a march on Saturday, Sept. 13, from the Framingham Centre Common to MCI-Framingham to protest the state's plan to invest $360 million in renovating the women's ...

Qarchak Prison, located southeast of Tehran, is Iran's largest women's detention center. Calls to close the facility have ...