In August 2023, members of the California Legislative Women’s Caucus held a hearing to learn about the culture of sexual assault and harassment of inmates by prison staff. A year later ...

Tucked away in the Central Valley, Central California Women's Facility sits off Highway 99 between Fresno and Merced. Farmland surrounds much of the prison, and visitors are rare. The 640-acre ...

A Northern California women's prison that has been under scrutiny and investigation over allegations of systemic sexual abuse will close despite efforts to reform the facility's culture of abuse ...

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

Thirteen women who are currently serving sentences in the Chowchilla prison filed the complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California earlier this month, asserting that ...

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 ministry sponsors compromise bill, arguing that “one community’s safety cannot come at the cost of another’s.” In 2008, while Amie Ichikawa was serving her sentence at the ...

In August 2023, members of the California Legislative Women’s Caucus held a hearing to learn about the culture of sexual ...