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 ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California lawmakers are pushing to create more oversight at women's prisons, which face thousands of sexual misconduct and assault complaints. A new budget proposal would add ...

Gazing across the crowd of women, fresh from county jail in their orange prison jumpsuits, Lena Coleman wishes she could save them all. And it's her job to try. In July, after 20 years in prison for ...

A Republican lawmaker is pushing a new bill that would seclude female transgender prisoners from cisgender women prisoners in California correctional facilities. State Sen. Shannon Grove, ...

Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of alleged sexual abuse. For seven years, the only full-time gynecologist at the California Institution for Women, a high-security prison facility ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (FOX40.COM) — California is one of only five ...

Correctional staff at the Central California Women’s Facility assaulted a group of incarcerated women with pepper spray and rubber bullets to retaliate after inmates filed sexual abuse claims, a ...

Anyone entering a California prison — including visitors, staff and attorneys — will be subject to a canine search under a new policy rolling out today across the state. CalMatters obtained a ...

The Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla on Friday, Dec. 5, 2008. Tomas O'Valle Fresno Bee file Correctional staff at the Central California Women’s Facility assaulted a group of ...