A women’s prison in Illinois currently houses a man who murdered his mother in 1995 and hid her body in a bathtub, documents show. Kmuel King Illinois Prison Records by Hudson Crozier Logan Correction ...

A new safe house is opening in Rockford, Illinois, to support women returning from prison. The facility will provide housing, treatment, and employment services to help women reintegrate into society.

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, ...

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 ...

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