Deer Lodge County offered two potential locations for a new women’s prison, one adjacent to the Montana State Hospital Forensic Unit at Galen, and two sites adjacent to the Montana State Hospital at ...

Correction: This story has been corrected to reflect that this is not the first women’s prison in the state of North Dakota.

Razor wire lines the recreation yard at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington on Aug. 27, 2024. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The Essex town planning commission ...

Formerly incarcerated women will lead a march on Saturday, Sept. 13, from the Framingham Centre Common to MCI-Framingham to protest the state's plan to invest $360 million in renovating the women's ...

The roughly $250 million project is likely to bring hundreds of permanent positions and temporary construction jobs.