A new budget request would allow the Office of the Inspector General to monitor 350 of an estimated 2,400 staff sexual ...

California lawmakers are pushing to create more oversight at women's prisons, which face thousands of sexual misconduct and assault complaints.

Chowchilla is a Max documentary movie about the kidnapping of 26 children in the 1970s, and here is the shocking true story.

OAKLAND — A mistrial was declared Monday in the trial of an FCI Dublin women’s prison guard accused of sexually preying on inmates at the now-shuttered facility, after jurors couldn’t agree ...

Deliberations were called off a week after the jurors began deliberating the fate of former prison guard Darrell Smith.

This year, for the first time, women make up a majority in California’s state Senate. Across both chambers, 58 women — a record high — are serving. This is just two seats away from gender ...

Charlotte Thrasher most recently served as superintendent of the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Gig Harbor.

He expected to be on the next bus to a federal prison yard, and prosecutors said at the time they’d work to make that happen. Nearly 18 months later, he’s still in the same California State ...

A prosecutor in California blasted the state's $239 million taxpayer-funded project to build a prison rehabilitation center in the Bay Area, arguing that it's another example of politicians ...

The Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility is accused of having severe cases of black mold, and some say the public needs to be involved in this issue.

OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) - A woman from Marion County is set to spend the rest of her life behind bars. A jury handed out two life ...