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A Justice Department investigation continues into a California women’s prison that came to be called the “rape club,” in ...
You have no peace of mind. There's no solitude in prison. So to be afforded a single cell, people would love to have that. But it was never afforded to the women. It was just to the man," Barela said.
L.A.-based singer-songwriter Eleni Mandell drew upon recent experiences teaching female prison inmates to express themselves through song for her new single 'Circumstance,' which The Times is ...
The prison in question was a state penitentiary in Jim Crow Mississippi, better known as Parchman. Of the more than 2,000 prisoners there in the mid-1930s, between 60-80 were women, of which only ...
It is difficult to find work if you've been incarcerated. Outside Seattle, one women's prison is trying to give inmates a better chance by training some of them for nontraditional jobs.
The state Department of Public Safety on Thursday moved a transgender inmate from an all-male prison to a state facility that houses women. Posted 2019-08-15T15:08:05+00:00 - Updated 2019-08-15T21 ...