The Paper Trail is an in-house newspaper written and edited by incarcerated people at Central California Women’s Facility. Its supporters say it's the first effort of its kind at a women's ...

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Severe prison overcrowding and critical staffing shortages persist, while long-term solutions such as facility expansion and ...

Even though women are the fastest-growing segment of the prison population, no agency tracks ... officers to get medical care. In a 2020 article for the Harvard Law Review, Dr. Carolyn Sufrin ...