Leylani Simmons, the Bay Area woman convicted in a 2011 drunk-driving crash in East Palo Alto that killed her passenger, has ...

Leylani Simmons was 25 years old when she fled from East Palo Alto police while driving intoxicated and killed her passenger ...

An advocate for reform in women s prisons is calling for an overhaul of federal law following a recent report highlighting ...

A nonprofit uses VR headsets to offer inmates practical scenarios like job interviews alongside travel experiences, providing ...

Jacob Smith has been in prison for two decades, but he and other inmates are still taking regular trips to far-flung, exotic ...

But with a hefty price tag and limited access, La Vigne worries about the “practical realities," such as unintended ...

An internal assessment by the Michigan Department of Corrections contradicts the state’s public claims that conditions at ...

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December means Christmas in the doggy day room at Logan Correctional Center, Illinois’ largest state prison for women. On a recent visit, there were dogs dressed in holiday sweaters or reindeer ...

A photo of Martha Perez is found in a bin of family photos at her family's home in Prescott Valley, Arizona, on Sunday, March 9, 2025. Courtney Pedroza for the Marshall Project Evangelina Perez lost ...

Evangelina Perez lost count of the number of times her mother, Martha Perez, called her from federal prison, gasping for breath because she had missed dialysis treatments for her kidney failure. At 59 ...