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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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