In March 2024, Gov. JB Pritzker announced the closure and rebuild of both Stateville and Logan correctional centers, ...

Though move-out dates at Logan Correctional Center haven’t been formally announced by Gov. JB Pritzker or the Illinois ...

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Advocates led by the Illinois Justice Project argue the findings strengthen the case for a statewide reentry housing ...

A local organization offering connection, education and entertainment to women in prison. Chicago Books to Women in Prison sends free books to women and trans nationwide. Becca Greenstein joins us ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Women are the fastest-growing population of incarcerated people. And if Republicans ...

Although there are more men than women in prison, the growth rate of female imprisonment since 1980 has been twice that of men. Female incarceration in the U.S. has increased by more than 585 percent, ...

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is taking further action to keep male inmates away from women’s prisons, but ...

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Early in her second trimester, Linda Acoff was taken into custody for failing to complete court-ordered mental health treatment. After three weeks in the Cuyahoga County Jail in Columbus, Ohio, she ...