CHOWCHILLA, Calif. — Gazing across the crowd of women, fresh from county jail in their orange prison jumpsuits, Lena Coleman wishes she could save them all. And it’s her job to try. In July ...

CHOWCHILLA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A federal civil rights investigation is underway after several lawsuits alleged that incarcerated women were being sexually abused by correctional officers in ...

CHOWCHILLA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Allegations of sexual abuse behind bars have sparked a federal investigation of the staff at two California women's prison facilities. The US Department of Justice ...

Fresno correctional officer Ralph Contreras, indicted for trading child sex abuse material, faces indictment with up to 20 years in prison and a fine.

This file photo depicts Valley State Prison, formerly called Valley State Prison for Women, in Chowchilla. DICK SCHMIDT Sacramento Bee Staff Photo The first time Amika Mota witnessed a sexual ...

In a warehouse-style room at the Central California Women’s Facility outside Chowchilla, Jesse Vasquez stood before a group of very attentive women in prison-issue denims. They were prospective ...

ncarcerated women at the Central California Women’s facility in Chowchilla say correctional officers used pepper spray, tear gas and rubber bullets on them after forcing them into a cafeteria with no ...

A former prison guard was convicted Tuesday of 64 counts of rape, sodomy and sexual battery on nine female prisoners at California’s state prison in Chowchilla. Gregory Rodriguez, 56, sat with ...

Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of alleged sexual abuse. For seven years, the only full-time gynecologist at the California Institution for Women, a high-security prison ...

In late 2023, Dena Hernandez returned to her room inside the women’s prison in Chowchilla, Calif., and spotted a packet in the mail. It contained a letter saying the Los Angeles district ...

A Stanford study surveyed 650 women incarcerated in California and found that intimate partner violence often led women to long prison sentences for acts of survival.

And it's her job to try. In July, after 20 years in prison for attempted murder and a gun enhancement, Coleman, 47, became one of three dozen prisoners at the Central California Women’s Facility ...