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New Hampshire's prison system has faced increased pressure this past year.

Budget cuts have stripped away many of the prison's programs designed to treat inmates and help them move back into society.

One commission has suggested the prisons be run privately, and the governor is reportedly looking into shipping prisoners to other facilities out of state.

But in all the scrutiny of the department of corrections, one facility has escaped the spotlight...the women's prison in Goffstown.

In 1992 a federal court ordered the state to provide female inmates with programs and services on parity with those of male inmates.

But as New Hampshire public radio's Dan Gorenstein reports, more than a decade later, the state hasn't been living up to its responsibility.