This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. As climate change exacerbates the risks of extreme heat across California, the state’s prison officials plan to embark ...

California ministry sponsors compromise bill, arguing that “one community’s safety cannot come at the cost of another’s.” In 2008, while Amie Ichikawa was serving her sentence at the Central ...

A death at California’s largest women’s prison Every summer, incarcerated women at the Chowchilla prison flood the phone lines of community advocacy groups and attorneys’ offices, raising alarms about ...

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.

Faith Booher-Smith, a 28-year-old woman and inmate at Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW), was viciously attacked on August 7 by a 6’4” male child molester identifying as a transgender ...

California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws, until now. Headway California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated ...

The California prison system is beginning a $38 million pilot project to test ways to keep cells cooler. It involves a limited test of cooling systems and new insulation at three of the state's 31 ...

Prison in southeast Estonia has hundreds of empty cells Sweden is among countries experiencing prison overcrowding Officials are negotiating terms of prisoner transfer TARTU, Estonia, July 30 (Reuters ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. NEWPORT — A career criminal, who once impregnated a Windsor County prison guard while she was on duty at work, has died while serving his latest ...