Women’s incarceration has increased by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in jails or prisons in the ...
While men historically receive the majority of extreme prison sentences, some women around the world have faced extraordinarily long terms for crimes ranging from murder and fraud to political ...
Most of us only know what prison life looks like thanks to movies and TV shows — and those tend to exaggerate almost everything. In reality, a lot of what people believe about prison is a mix of myths ...