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The thought of prison takes one’s mind to cold, sterile cells, barbed wires, and the weight of past mistakes. It’s easy to reduce an inmate to their crime, to forget the humanity that exists beyond ...

Sunny K. White was sentenced for the hit-and-run death of 22-year-old Mika Westwolf, who was struck and killed on Highway 93 ...

The new documentary "Paint Me a Road Out of Here" details the history of a painting by Faith Ringgold, created for the Rikers ...

The New Hampshire Correctional Facility for Women in Concord recently added a new program that uses theater to build ...

In 1971, the artist Faith Ringgold received a grant to make a painting for a public institution in New York City. She decided ...

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Art exhibit 'The Only Door I Can Open' and Flyaway Productions' 'I Give You My Sorrows' speak out for prisoners' rights.

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire ...

Six women along with the California Coalition of Women Prisoners have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, a prison gynecologist, and various officials with ...

In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would ...

Deri threatens to topple government if Haredi draft law not passed * Israeli contractor mistakenly killed by IDF troops in Gaza * IDF strikes Hezbollah vehicles in Lebanon ...