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

Content warning: Discussions of abuse and sexual assault. 1."I worked in a state prison for 26 years. What I've learned is that 1) Respect works both ways. 2) Listening is more important than talking.

People associate the words prison labor with coercion and exploitation, with inmates paid peanuts to do menial work for the government or its contractors. If you hear that phrase, you probably don't ...

In 2022, Gavin Newsom vetoed the California Mandela Act, a key piece of prison reform legislation that would have limited the use of solitary confinement to 15 consecutive days, and banned it ...