A new home for formerly incarcerated women is one of a handful in the state to help the women reenter society.

For too many women, prison is "as good as it gets." New research based on interviews with 80 female prisoners in Western Australia reveals most of these women were "criminalized" by circumstances ...

It costs significantly more to incarcerate women than men, adding to the financial burden on state and local correctional systems, according to a new report from the nonpartisan think tank Council on ...

The increasing incarceration of women – often for minor, nonviolent offenses – carries a high human cost. There is a shift ...

Prison reform in Australia is experiencing what can only be described as a crisis of the imagination. The over-representation of Indigenous people in prisons is one Closing the Gap target that has not ...