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

California’s incarcerated population has aged rapidly over the past 30 years. A new report recommends pathways for release.

From 2006 to 2010, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized nearly 150 women without getting the proper state approval, according to the Center for Investigative ...

Over the course of several years, two women's prisons in California signed at least 150 pregnant women up for permanent sterilization to be performed after they gave birth, without following the ...

This piece was published in collaboration with the Investigative Reporting Lab at Yale. In leaked videos from California's largest women's prison, guards stand in a line facing dozens of incarcerated ...

MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Construction is underway on a new mental health building at the Central California Women's Facility in Madera County, but the workers are actually female inmates in ...

OAKLAND, Calif. – 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 in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An exterior view of the Theo Lacy Facility in Orange. (Los Angeles Times) A former Orange County sheriff’s deputy arrested in 2022 ...