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 ...
Construction is moving full speed ahead on the Heart River Correctional Center, North Dakota’s first prison built specifically for women, and it’s set to change how the ...
California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws, until now. Headway California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated ...