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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Several federal prisons are being closed, including a women’s facility in California where AP exposed rampant sex abuse.

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, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California over the past dozen years enacted a series of criminal justice laws that were meant to give more people an ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A new budget proposal California lawmakers are considering would add 22 positions to the Office of the Inspector General to better oversee inmate complaints and the California ...

Inmates remained on lockdown Thursday at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, Calif. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) Authorities on Thursday rolled back restrictions at nine California prisons ...