Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in U.S. jails or prisons. By 2023, that number was roughly 186,000, according ...

Reports of staff-on-inmate abuse at Pocatello Women’s Correctional Center, the largest women-only prison in the state, were filed at about three times the rate of men’s prisons from 2021-2023. There’s ...

Women’s incarceration has risen dramatically, increasing by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The ...

Editor’s note: The article discusses sexual assault. “Guarded by Predators” is a new investigative series exposing rape and abuse by Idaho’s prison guards and ...

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A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of 38 current and former inmates in Los Angeles County’s women’s jail claims male staff ...

In Idaho prisons, more than two dozen women say guards prey on them with little fear of consequences — and those who speak up are often punished. Their accounts, gathered over an almost yearlong ...

Mass resignations by the Mitchellville police officers and interim city have left the city, which is the location for the ...

BOISE, Idaho — If they hadn’t met in prison, none of it would have happened like this. On the outside, Jamie Hamilton would have been polite to Derek Stettler, maybe have had “a conversation,” she’d ...