These 20 women represent a major milestone in a decade-long partnership between the state’s department of corrections and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sign at Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla is shown in a file photo. A former correctional officer at the women ...

A group of current and former inmates in the Los Angeles County women's jail are suing, alleging that male staff watched them shower, harassed them, and groped them while under their care. The lawsuit ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A federal jury has deadlocked for the second time in a trial of a former correctional officer charged with sexually abusing four inmates at a now-closed federal women’s prison ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Female inmates at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood in December. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) A federal ...

An Orange County sheriff’s deputy was arrested Wednesday, Oct. 29, on suspicion of sexually assaulting a female inmate earlier this year. The inmate told jail staff on Oct. 15 that Deputy Leobardo ...

The sign at Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla is shown in a file photo. TOMAS OVALLE Fresno Bee file A former correctional officer at the women’s prison in Chowchilla was sentenced to ...