California Institution for Women received bachelor's degrees through Cal State LA's Prison Graduation Initiative, marking the ...

Female legislators proposed a slate of bills aimed at prison reform, including offering survivors of sexual violence alternatives to incarceration.

California’s own Department of Fair Employment and Housing, which enforces workplace discrimination laws, joined Van Fleet’s lawsuit, seeking a return to the pre-2015 policy. The Department of ...

Nearly two dozen incarcerated women received bachelor’s degrees through Cal State LA on Oct. 3, marking the first all-female ...

Patricia Krenwinkel, a follower of cult leader Charles Manson convicted of killing Sharon Tate, was denied parole after more ...

The sign at Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla is shown in a file photo. (TOMAS OVALLE/Fresno Bee file) A former correctional officer at the women’s prison in Chowchilla was sentenced ...

California over the past dozen years enacted a series of criminal justice laws that were meant to give more people an opportunity to be resentenced and thin out the state’s severely overcrowded ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. As climate change exacerbates the risks of extreme heat across California, the state’s prison officials plan to embark ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A federal jury has deadlocked for the second time in a trial of a former correctional officer charged with sexually abusing four inmates at a now-closed federal women’s prison ...

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 ...

After years of complaints about hot temperatures inside prison cells, California is finally embarking on a plan to cool some cells. But it’s only a test, and it will only help a fraction of inmates.