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A recently shuttered federal women's prison could reopen as an ICE detention center as part of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Five California correctional officers who were accused of sexually assaulting incarcerated people over the last dozen years remain employed by the state, according to a new audit ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lawmakers in California have killed a proposed measure aimed at addressing safety concerns in women's prisons stemming from a 2020 law allowing inmates to request housing based on their gender ...

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