Jacqueline Montanez, formerly known as "Loca D," served 31 years in maximum-security women's prisons in Illinois and Florida.

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 ...

The Department of Justice is preparing to send formal letters to California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Maine Gov. Janet Mills, confirming a probe into whether female inmates’ constitutional rights have ...

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