Women make up less than 5% of California’s prison population, but that small portion faces “double punishment,” said Anne Irwin, the director of prison reform group Smart Justice California ...

Women make up less than 5% of California’s prison population, but that small portion faces “double punishment,” said Anne Irwin, the director of prison reform group Smart Justice California ...

California law may ban conjugal or family visits after the death of two women who died while visiting their spouses in state prison. Assemblymember David Tangipa is working on legislation.

Glen Edward Rogers, 62, is set to die by lethal injection on May 15 at Florida State Prison near the city of Starke. Rogers was convicted in 1997 and sentenced to death for the murder of Tina ...

In all, over 2,000 people in California prisons identify as transgender, non-binary, or intersex, and around 1 in 7 prisoners at the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) in Chowchilla ...

California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws, until now. Headway California passed the nation’s first prosecutor ...

The state created two of its own memory care units in men’s prisons, a 30-bed unit in the California Health Care Facility in Stockton in 2019 and a 35-bed unit in the California Medical Facility ...

Women make up less than 5% of California’s prison population, but that small portion faces “double punishment,” said Anne Irwin, the director of prison reform group Smart Justice California ...