More than a dozen current and formerly incarcerated women spoke to KQED about a pattern of sexual abuse and retaliation that persists at the largest women’s prison in California.

The Justice Department announced Thursday that an investigation into the California female prison system has found that it allegedly failed to keep female prisoners safe from sexual abuse and ...

A federal investigation has uncovered decades of sexual abuse by staff at two women’s prisons run by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, with the U.S. Department of Justice ...

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Female prisoners have not been protected from sexual abuse and harassment by staffers at California prisons, according to the U.S. Justice Department. Including at the women’s facility in Chowchilla ...

A Justice Department report released on Thursday found that inmates at two state-run women’s prisons routinely had their rights violated. State officials say they have already put reforms in place. By ...

The warden of the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla has been demoted and reassigned, and multiple correctional officers are under investigation for alleged sexual misconduct, according ...

Some California women’s prisons have failed to protect inmates from sexual abuse and harassment by prison staff, the U.S. Department of Justice announced during a Thursday, Aug. 13 news conference in ...