New Jersey Monitor

Construction to start on $310M NJ prison for women

The new mixed-custody prison will replace a decaying 112-year-old facility in Clinton that Gov. Phil Murphy in 2021 ordered ...

Indictment of former Edna Mahan women’s prison officers and officials dismissed by judge

An indictment against more than a dozen people who worked at the now shuttered Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for women were dismissed Thursday by a judge in Hunterdon County.
The Pacific Northwest Inlander

A yearlong investigation finds rampant sexual abuse by guards, systemic cover-ups, and punishment for victims in Idaho’s women’s prisons

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

Mystery visitors plunged Ghislaine Maxwell’s Texas prison camp into lockdown as inmates complain of preferential treatment, report says

Maxwell had a mysterious meeting in the prison’s chapel that prevented other inmates from getting their outdoor time, per the ...

I was sexually assaulted by a trans inmate in a women’s prison, says Katie

Katie can still remember the ­moment she realised she was being placed in a cell with South Australia’s most notorious ...
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MS-13 gang member in prison for double murder sues Trump, demands transfer to women's prison

Last month, Aguilar filed a lawsuit alleging that the Bureau of Prisons and Trump have “refused to recognize” his self-declared gender identity. Aguilar claimed in the filing that men who identify as ...
IJR

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Trans’ Inmate Back In Male Prison Years After Allegedly Raping Female Cellmate

A violent “transgender” male prisoner was quietly transferred back to a men’s prison in June, years after he was accused of sexually assaulting his female cellmate in a women’s prison. Christopher ...
The New York Times

Prison Reform Left Women Behind. Then Prosecutors Stepped In.

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 ...
KELOLAND News

SD prison task force hears public commentary

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The members of Project Prison Reset’s task force turned their attention to public comment Thursday afternoon. “Build with rehabilitation in mind,” Stephan Harrison of Sioux ...
MassLive

Mass. man forced vulnerable women into sex trafficking. Now, he owes them $1.5 million

Seven women have been awarded a total of $1.5 million after standing up to a Massachusetts man who forced them into sex trafficking, according to Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Leah Foley‘s office.
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MN's surface numbers on women in prison don't tell whole story

When diving into prison population data, men are often the focus but researchers are gathering information on troubling statistics for women, with Minnesota cited in a new report. The Prison Policy ...

Founder of California-based porn empire sentenced to 27 years in federal prison

SAN DIEGO — The founder of a California-based porn empire that recruited women with false modeling offers was sentenced Monday to 27 years in federal prison.