Davis Vanguard: Pressure Mounts on Legislature to Address Abuse in California Women’s Prisons
Survivors and advocates delivered urgent testimony during a budget hearing to address allegations of abuse, retaliation and failed oversight inside California's women's prisons, with demands for ...
LGBTQ Nation: DOJ will investigate California & Maine over trans inmates in women’s prisons
Donald Trump’s Justice Department announced on Thursday an investigation targeting transgender women inmates in women’s prisons in California and Maine, reprising a potent 2024 campaign theme ahead of ...
DOJ will investigate California & Maine over trans inmates in women’s prisons
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a federal investigation into California women’s prisons regarding the housing of biological male inmates. Investigators are examining whether the state’s ...
Los Angeles Times: Justice Department to investigate California over housing of trans inmates at women’s prisons
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Department of Justice said it would investigate two state women’s facilities to determine ‘if those prisons ...
Justice Department to investigate California over housing of trans inmates at women’s prisons
Los Angeles Daily News: DOJ launches probe into ‘biological males’ housed in California women’s prisons
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Thursday, March 26, it has launched a federal investigation into whether two California women’s prisons are unconstitutionally housing and providing ...
Tennessean: 13% of women in Pa. prisons serving life amid U.S. incarceration spike
Women’s incarceration has increased by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in jails or prisons in the ...