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

Tucked away in the Central Valley, Central California Women's Facility sits off Highway 99 between Fresno and Merced.

The state is morally and legally responsible for the safety of all people in their care. Instead of protecting these women, it neglected them.” ...

The bill would also prohibit prisoners convicted of certain sexual offenses from being housed in women’s prisons. Grove’s ...

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 ...

Read the full story 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.

apartment-like facilities on prison grounds” and can last up to 40 hours — are those on death row or sex offenders, the California Department of Corrections site states. “Family visits are a ...

whose firm also represents women who were housed at the shuttered federal women’s prison. California corrections officials called Peters “highly qualified” in a statement, while Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ...

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 ...