Rare access inside Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla

NBC Bay Area was granted rare access inside Central California Women's Facility (CCWF) in Chowchilla. It is the largest of ...
WSLS 10

Jury deadlocks again in trial of officer charged with sexually abusing inmates at California prison

OAKLAND, Calif. – A federal jury has deadlocked for the second time in a trial of a former correctional officer charged with sexually abusing four inmates at a now-closed federal women’s prison in ...
The Atlantic

California Prisons Were Illegally Sterilizing Female Inmates

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 ...
NBC Bay Area

‘The Pulitzer Prize behind bars': Celebrating work by incarcerated newsrooms

It's known as the Pulitzers of prison journalism. The American Penal Press Contest celebrates the work of incarcerated writers. NBC Bay Area's Jessica Aguirre went inside the Central California ...

ICE opened a detention center in a former California prison. Detainees are suing over conditions inside

Immigrants in California's newest ICE detention center allege they're experiencing inhumane conditions and that they're not ...
KTVU

Complaints about California’s hellishly hot prison cells have been mounting for years

After years of complaints about hot temperatures inside prison cells, California is finally embarking on a plan to cool some cells. But it’s only a test, and it will only help a fraction of inmates.