In March 2024, Gov. JB Pritzker announced the closure and rebuild of both Stateville and Logan correctional centers, ...

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In California’s Central Valley sits a 640-acre prison, which is home to more than 2,000 women, nonbinary, and transgender people. It’s the largest women’s prison in the state — and the world. But that ...

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 ...

Hilde Tubex receives funding from The Western Australian Office of Crime Statistics and Research (WACSAR) Criminal Justice Research Grant. Natalie Gately receives funding from The Western Australian ...

California ministry sponsors compromise bill, arguing that “one community’s safety cannot come at the cost of another’s.” In 2008, while Amie Ichikawa was serving her sentence at the Central ...