Federal DOJ investigating California prisons over transgender housing policy

The Trump administration is investigating two California prisons over the practice of housing transgender individuals in ...
Davis VanguardOpinion

Aging Behind Bars: Why California Faces Pressure to Release Elderly Women from Prison

A new report from the UC Berkeley Law Policy Advocacy Clinic and the California Coalition for Women Prisoners argues that the ...

DOJ launches investigation of trans prisoners raping women in California, Maine

The Trump administration is launching an investigation into trans women in women’s prisons in California and Maine — as a law ...

Justice Department to investigate California over housing of trans inmates at women's prisons

The Trump administration said it had sent a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom informing him of a federal investigation into two ...

DOJ to investigate Maine and California over constitutionality of 'housing men in women's prisons'

The Department of Justice notified Gov. Janet Mills (D-ME) and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) that it was beginning federal ...
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How inmates survive San Quentin: America’s most dangerous prison

The investigative minds at How to Survive explore the overcrowded conditions and gang structures of the oldest prison in California and the social codes required to stay safe. Trump’s AI czar calls ...
Los Angeles Times

Prison overseers struggle with a new generation of ‘un-gangs’

Anyone who has followed the devastating violence in California’s prisons knows that gang rivalries trigger a lot of the bloodshed. So it stood to reason that if the authorities could get members to ...
The Appeal

California Spends $300 Million Each Year Incarcerating Senior Citizens in Women’s Prisons

California’s incarcerated population has aged rapidly over the past 30 years. A new report recommends pathways for release.