women’s prisons

Children are the “collateral damage” of a system obsessed with punishing rather than supporting mothers.

For many federal prisoners, including hundreds of mothers, executive clemency is their only chance to rejoin their families.

Women still behind bars have contributed to the fight for reproductive justice.

While abuses inside an Alabama women's prison have made headlines, less attention has been paid to the activism and organizing by women inside.

Mother's Day needs to become a call to arms against the continued oppression and trauma of incarceration experienced by both mothers and children.