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16 Aug 2009, 8:24 pm
Otter Creek Correctional Center, a corporate for-profit women's prison in Eastern Kentucky has been plagued by allegations of sexual assaults by corrections officers, including allegations of prison staff raping inmates. [read post]
23 Dec 2020, 1:35 pm
While the case arose out of a federal prison in Texas, it illustrates the prison conditions throughout state and federal prisons in California. [read post]
21 Dec 2018, 1:00 pm
Several states allow shackling incarcerated women while they are giving birth. [read post]
2 Feb 2011, 1:52 pm
After hearing the evidence, a Michigan jury has awarded $50,000 to a prison employee who claims he was a victim of gender discrimination when he wasn't permitted to supervise women. [read post]
2 Feb 2011, 1:52 pm
After hearing the evidence, a Michigan jury has awarded $50,000 to a prison employee who claims he was a victim of gender discrimination when he wasn't permitted to supervise women. [read post]
28 Mar 2022, 6:40 pm
In the United States, Women’s History Month is celebrated every March. [read post]
28 Feb 2008, 9:00 am
As detailed in this press release, "[a]ccording to a new report released today by the Pew Center on the States' Public Safety Performance Project, at the start of 2008, 2,319,258 adults were held in American prisons or jails, or one in every 99.1 men and women. [read post]
30 Apr 2012, 1:38 pm
The bad: the Department has announced that it is looking for another for-profit prison contractor to run the three state prisons formerly run by GEO. [read post]
13 Dec 2010, 5:39 am
Contrary to mythmaking in some quarters, CEDAW (the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women) does push participating governments to regulate family life and private conduct, it goes far beyond the current state of U.S. law, it is no mere hortatory exercise unlikely to affect future decisions by judges and others, it is not merely a way of pressuring countries whose record on women’s rights is inferior to that of the United… [read post]
1 Jan 2014, 6:04 am
In this case, the state trooper maintains that he has just cause to search the vehicle the women were in because of the odor of burning marijuana. [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 12:17 pm
Dana Harley is a prisoner in the segregated unit for women with HIV at the Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama. [read post]
18 Jul 2005, 9:41 am
In the case, two former state prison employees alleged that the warden was having affairs with several women who were treated in a [read post]
1 Dec 2006, 3:40 am
Today Arkansas correctional officials will dedicate a faith-based pre-release program for women prisoners, according to the Associated Press. [read post]
9 Sep 2018, 2:22 pm
Huron Valley Correctional Center, serving as Michigan’s only all-women prison, may run afoul of the United States Constitution. [read post]
27 Jan 2013, 11:40 am
A former New York state prison guard received judgments totalling nearly $1 million in her sexual harassment suit against the state. [read post]
12 Apr 2021, 9:06 pm
This test case—which is ongoing—directly parallels the original Olmstead case, in which the state held two women in psychiatric confinement for longer than medically necessary. [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 11:51 am
This kind of shackling is not only an infringement upon a woman’s constitutionally protected reproductive freedom, but especially burdens poor women and women of color who are over-represented in the prison system. [read post]
30 Aug 2016, 5:49 am
He wrote, “Im visiting from USA for this womens soccer crap. [read post]
7 Feb 2023, 5:17 pm
In 2003 the Prison Rape Elimination Act established a zero-tolerance policy for rape in any United States prison, which includes state as well as federal prisons. [read post]
30 Jan 2024, 6:00 am
For example, men and women leaving prison tend to have similar rates of employment after release, but men typically find higher-paying work than women. [read post]
