California Institution for Women News

As she thanked the four women who surrounded her at the California Institution for Women, Sofia started weeping.

Anna Marie Antonio, a nurse practitioner who has worked at the California Medical Facility prison in Vacaville, is golden.

California's prison health-care employees work hard -- or so it would seem by their schedules.

California's prison health-care employees work hard -- or so it would seem by their schedules.

An 80-percent reduction in prison addiction-treatment capacity could lead to a proportional increase in recidivism in California, some experts say.

A child trafficking victim was kept in a "house of horrors," only to be imprisoned as an adult for the murder of her batterer.

Low-risk inmates such as Michelle Bradley and her fellow fire crew members at the California Institution for Women are considered the cream of the prison crop.

A lieutenant is murdered during a robbery that leads to a citywide blackout, and the team must rely on bare-bones detective work rather than technology to solve the crime.

A county mental health specialist who worked with traumatized children and adults had a prior prison stint and four felony convictions when the Department of Behavioral Health hired her in February 2006.

The state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation will soon slash drug rehab programs for state inmates as part of $1.2 billion in budget cuts - though some fear the severe program reduction may be more trouble than its benefit.

Officials from Chino and Chino Hills have protested state plans to house mentally ill prisoners at the California Institution for Men since 2005, when a proposal surfaced to build a facility for 1,500 such inmates at the Chino prison complex.

The state plans to house a portion of its mentally ill inmates at the former Heman G. Stark Youth Correctional Facility as early as 2012.

When Jeremy Moose gets out of prison in 2012, the state will have spent more than $611,000 for his 13-year stint behind the bars - plus an additional $1,560 in waived tuition fees for his college education.

Brenda Clubine, one of the women incarcerated while being filmed for the "Sin By Silence" documentary, got support from the audience on Wednesday.

Dawn Davison wanted to do more for "her ladies" than the cash-strapped state could provide.

For one week in October, our community stands up, embraces love and stops violence through the YWCA's Week Without Violence, October 18th -24th. Here are a list of the week's events.

Two inmates at California Institution for Women celebrated their Bnot Mitzvah over the weekend, the first time such an event has occurred inside prison walls in the United States.

A surprising thing happened Sept. 5 inside the sprawling women's prison in Corona, Calif.

Two women, identified as Carol and Pamela - not their real names - became b'not mitzvah on Saturday, Sept.

There's the governor's plan for cutting $1.2 billion in spending from California's prison budget and there are the Senate and Assembly plans, mostly formulated by Democratic leaders.