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 ...
Tucked in a residential neighborhood of bungalows and crape myrtle trees, the federal women’s prison in Bryan, Texas, doesn’t look like a traditional lockup. The women live in dormitory-style rooms ...
California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws, until now. Dena Hernandez, who served 13 years in prison, was resentenced and ...