Reason

Women Allegedly Raped in Prison by Trans-Identifying Inmate Will Have To Refer to Attacker as 'She/Her'

Women who allege they were raped in a California prison by a biological male claiming to be transgender will be compelled to refer to the defendant using she/her pronouns, a Madera County judge ruled ...

Mixed progress at women's prison, inspectors find

There is a "clear commitment to improvement and innovation" at Europe's largest women's prison despite ongoing challenges, an ...
Yahoo

Neo-Nazi changes gender to serve sentence in women’s prison

Sven Liebich, a far-Right extremist, now goes by the new name of Marla-Svenja on official documents - Sebastian Willnow/DPA A German neo-Nazi will be allowed to start serving an 18-month sentence in a ...
Reason

Pregnant Women in Prison Aren't Getting Care, and No One Is Keeping Track

Early in her second trimester, Linda Acoff was taken into custody for failing to complete court-ordered mental health treatment. After three weeks in the Cuyahoga County Jail in Columbus, Ohio, she ...
KTVU

The impact of domestic violence on women in prison for killing their abusers

SAN FRANCISCO - October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and a newly released study from Stanford surveyed women incarcerated for killing their abusers. The head researcher says the findings help ...
Los Angeles Times

Women once held in California ‘rape club’ prison reach historic settlement to protect inmates

Inmates at a recently closed, scandal-plagued Bay Area women’s prison dubbed “the rape club” have reached a historic settlement that will increase oversight and protections for about 500 inmates ...