New prison’s programs will reduce state’s world-leading rate of incarcerated women, official says

South Dakota leads the nation in female incarceration. A new $87M women’s prison in Rapid City aims to expand rehabilitation ...
KELO-AM

New task force should cause female incarceration rates to “substantially decrease”

Corrections secretary Nick Lamb says female incarceration rates should “substantially decrease” with a newly created ...
Governing

South Dakota Banks on New Women’s Prison to Curb World-Leading Incarceration Rate

About 338 of every 100,000 women are behind bars in the state. Officials say the new facility could finally curb the nation’s ...
The New York Times

Prison Reform Left Women Behind. Then Prosecutors Stepped In.

California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws, until now. Headway California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated ...
WGNO

New $160 million Louisiana women’s prison opens in St. Gabriel

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The new Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women, a $160 million facility in St. Gabriel, is now open after three years of construction. State officials, ...

Too many female abuse victims are locked up, says minister as BBC visits women's prison

Speaking to the BBC, Prisons Minister Lord Timpson said there were too many women who were victims of domestic abuse in the system. These women, however, are criminals and some will have little ...