Female Inmates
Female inmates face unique challenges and needs within the correctional system. This directory provides articles and resources on healthcare, rehabilitation programs, and gender-specific policies that impact women in prison. Understanding these issues is crucial for correctional staff to ensure appropriate care and management. For more information on inmate-specific concerns, visit our section on Probation and Parole.
Girl Scouts Beyond Bars offers the only in-person visitation for inmates, helping mothers and daughters reconnect through shared activities
‘Not denied for past mistakes’: Nev. prison highlights cosmetology program with low recidivism rates
Since 2016, only two out of 85 cosmetology graduates at Florence McClure Women’s Correctional Center have returned to prison
The Justice Department will pay an average of about $1.1 million to each of 103 women who sued the Bureau of Prisons over their treatment at FCI Dublin
The College of Southern Nevada’s program at Florence McClure Women’s Correctional Center highlights the impact of education on reducing recidivism
The New Path program gives women at Florence McClure Women’s Correctional Center the tools to pursue cosmetology careers upon release
Smith made international headlines in 1994 when she insisted for nine days that a carjacker drove away with her sons
Learn how inmate privacy violations, as officers observed an inmate’s naked body during childbirth, led to a lawsuit in Brown v. Dickey
Jail policies and classification systems have been largely developed based on the male population
Amber Marshall’s appointment aims to address gender-specific needs within Arizona’s correctional system
The Franklin County Regional Jail inmate died after she jumped out of the transport vehicle’s window, police said
Crocheting is part of the “healthy hobbies” program for the women living in the minimum security pre-release facility
After calling for help CO Hanna Suite defended herself and was helped by other inmates
More than half of the employees at Coffee Creek feel it is “not a psychologically safe facility for staff,” the researchers wrote
The suit accuses the Bureau of Prisons of failing to do enough to prevent sexual abuse at FCI Dublin, despite serious incidents going back to the 1990s
Theranos founder objects to $250 monthly restitution sought by US due to limited financial resources
Prosecutors want Elizabeth Holmes to pay $250 a month to victims of her failed blood testing startup after she leaves prison, but her attorneys are pushing back
Girls Scouts Beyond Bars is a unique program in dozens of women’s prisons, jails and juvenile-detention centers across the country
Darrell Wayne Smith, who worked at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, is the sixth employee at the prison charged with abusing inmates
Over 200 women at Edna Mahan took part in training dogs for nearly 22 years with Puppies Behind Bars
Enrique Chavez was the fifth employee at the Dublin prison to be charged with sexual abuse of inmates since June 2021
The indictments are the latest development in a state criminal probe that resulted in significant fallout, including the departure of the state’s corrections commissioner
The inmate was able to leave the booking area unsupervised and rape the female inmate who was handcuffed to a bar attached to a wall while awaiting release
The nation’s only medical prison for women, FMC Carswell, had the highest rate of sexual assault allegations at any federal women’s prison from 2014 to 2018
Etowah County Detention Center often holds several pregnant and postpartum women in the jail under special bond conditions that require rehab and $10,000 cash
A corrections officer, not a medical professional, received the newborn, hit him on the back to summon his first breaths and responded when he turned blue, an internal report says
Costing about $150 million, the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women will meet the unique needs of female inmates
James Theodore Highhouse forced inmates seeking his spiritual guidance at Calif. prison to have sex with him
Deputies took two hours to respond to the homeless woman’s call for help, then stopped at Starbucks on the way to the hospital; the woman lost the pregnancy
The study, called the Gender Informed Practices Assessment, takes a compressive systemic look at women’s prison practices
Rape and sexual battery of female inmates at the Cherokee County Adult Detention Center “was rampant, routine, and widespread,” according to the woman’s lawsuit
