Advocacy groups such as Alabama Arise and the Alabama Prison Birth Project report that the number of pregnant women in jail ...

If a woman is pregnant at the time she is sentenced to incarceration, the bill mandates that the court include a term of ...

Alabama bill allows pregnant women to defer incarceration and provide postpartum care for 12 weeks, with probation until that ...

Alabama State Rep. Rolanda Hollis introduced HB138 on Feb. 6, which Hollis Hollis argued would help both parents and children ...

Elizabeth Holmes, the Theranos founder who is serving an 11-year sentence for fraud, has described her life behind bars as ...

The COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented challenges, causing widespread financial strain, heightened mental health struggles, and deepening existing inequalities across communities. While this wave ...

Pregnant women who are incarcerated will move into the facility next week. For now, only women with 18 months or less to serve can participate but the program may expand over time.

The new lawsuit, alleging Maine Correctional Center officers stayed in a pregnant woman's hospital room while she gave birth, is similar to a case against the Cumberland County Jail that was recently ...

Woman Gets More Than 3-Year Prison Term for Helping Pregnant Chinese Women Get to US LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California woman was sentenced Monday to more than 3 years in prison in a long-running ...

LOS ANGELES--A California woman was sentenced Monday to more than 3 years in prison in a long-running case over a business that helped pregnant Chinese women travel to the United States to deliver ...