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

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

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

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 ...

The Alabama Senate passed legislation aimed at getting pregnant women to the doctor sooner if they are eligible for Medicaid.

Abortion rights advocates feared the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that opened the door to state abortion bans would also ...

A Florida man was sentenced to federal prison for stalking and making threats to an ex-partner and her sister.

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

The nursery program at the Women’s Eastern Reception, Diagnostic, and Correctional Center in Vandalia, Missouri, offers moms the opportunity to bond with and care for their babies.

Giving birth can be one of the toughest times in a woman’s life. But tonight the ministry of Justice is urgently looking into concerns raised by Channel 4 News that women at HMP Bronzefield in Surrey ...