A version of this article appears in print on June 20, 2025, Section A, Page 24 of the New York edition with the headline: Prosecutors Stepped In as Prison Reform Left Women Behind.

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Alabama is spending $1.25 billion to build a 4,000-bed prison for men intended to help with the crowding, violence, weapons, and drugs that plague the state’s aging and understaffed correctional ...

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Yolanda Williams, a 20-year U.S. Army veteran, said her relative is enduring hot and uninhabitable conditions in prison. “Only thing we judge them off of is the crime,” Williams said.