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Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, New York State's only maximum-security prison for women, provides camp for inmates' children, who stay at homes in the area for a week and are shuttled daily ...
Transit company offering free trips to women's prison from Capital Region on Mother's Day.
The number of COVID-19 cases has spiked in recent weeks at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, a women’s prison that houses inmates who are pregnant as well as a nursery program for newborns ...
The Bedford Hills Correctional Facility opened in 1901 as a reformatory for women between the ages of 15 and 30, but was later converted to a maximum-security women's prison.
For about a 15-year period, I was a regular visitor at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, where I advocated on behalf of some nonviolent women inmates.
The six-hour drive from her home to the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility isn’t an easy trip for 66-year-old Donna Robinson. But she knew she needed to make the journey immediately when her ...
A male prison guard at the Bedford Hills women's prison was found guilty Friday of charges that he had sexual contact with an inmate. Rasheen Smalls, 35, of Yonkers was convicted after a jury ...
Ten pregnant women locked up at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility should be released immediately due to concerns over coronavirus, according to the Legal Aid Society.
Adobe Stock / William Woman to Woman: Prison Ministry gives Iona students the opportunity to meet and befriend inmates in Westchester County. This past semester, Iona College of New Rochelle hosted an ...
Few women at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Bedford Hills, NY, benefit from easing of Rockefeller-era drug laws; only about 10 of 850 drug-related prisoners are released as result of ...