Two inmates die in four days at Michigan's only women's prison

Khaira Howard and Rebecca Fackler died within four days of each other at the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility.
Metro Times

Two deaths, mold complaints deepen crisis at Michigan women’s prison

For weeks, Shaquillia DeShields says she tried to get help for her daughter inside Michigan’s only women’s prison. Khaira Howard, 28, had schizophrenia and appeared to be unraveling. She believed ...
Phoenix New Times

Witness: Locked gate at women’s prison impeded inmate suicide response

Nurses responding to a suicide in Arizona’s women’s prison on Saturday morning were impeded by a gate that shouldn’t have been locked, one witness told Phoenix New Times. On Monday, the Arizona ...
New York Focus

Controversial Security Leader Transferred From Women’s Prison After Outcry

Michel Blot was reassigned from Bedford Hills Correctional Facility to Sing Sing after prisoners and advocates raised ...