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 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 ...

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.

Robert Marks told investigators he had intended only to rob the woman but decided to kill her when he realized they were alone in the apartment, officials said.

Women at the California Institution for Women reported sexually abusive and “sadistic” behavior during gynecology exams ...

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

The ACLU and federal court monitors continue to step in to implement systemic healthcare reform at Arizona state prisons.