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

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 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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

The University of California, Davis, has announced plans to convert its men’s and women’s locker rooms at its recreation centers into “universal” all-sex locker rooms, sparking outrage ...

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 ...