The number of women behind bars in New Mexico and across the globe has increased by nearly 60% in the past 25 years, according to a new Prison Policy Initiative report. New Mexico ranks 17th among the ...

Across the country, fewer people are behind bars today than a decade ago. But new analysis from the Prison Policy Initiative says women – in Alabama and beyond – are not part of that progress. Alabama ...

In 1989, an unidentified woman was found murdered in the Arizona desert. Her two young daughters had vanished. Now decades ...

Opened this year, the Watershed Navigation Center aims to reduce homelessness and crime by connecting those in need to ...

An indictment against more than a dozen people who worked at the now shuttered Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for women ...

The nonprofit is partnering with Colby College in Maine to enroll formerly incarcerated women in college courses.

This is part of the “Confronting the Women’s Incarceration Crisis” series, where we examine what is driving more women into ...

Christa Pike received the death sentence at age 18 for the 1995 torture slaying of Colleen Slemmer, who was a fellow ...

Two sisters who went missing in 1989 after their mother was found stabbed to death and left in the desert have been found alive – 36 years later, with the help of familial DNA.

Sean “Diddy” Combs is currently on trial for sex trafficking-related charges. The record exec and rapper — who also went by the names P. Diddy, Puffy and Puff Daddy over the years of his music career ...