Firefighters with the Chino Valley Fire District responded just after 1 p.m. to the California Institution for Women after ...

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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 ...

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This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California over the past dozen years enacted a series of criminal justice laws that were meant to give more people an ...

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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 from the state ...