Tucked away in the Central Valley, Central California Women's Facility sits off Highway 99 between Fresno and Merced.

The women said they were beaten and sprayed with pepper spray while in restraints by Central California Women’s Facility ...

The state is morally and legally responsible for the safety of all people in their care. Instead of protecting these women, ...

In total, women make up just 4% of the state's prison population. For these reasons and more, the prison in Chowchilla seems an unlikely place to have its own newspaper. But last year, an ...

The department said that publicly available information, including hundreds of lawsuits by women who have been incarcerated at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla and ... within ...

Last man in prison for Chowchilla bus kidnapping to be released Frederick Newhall Woods, the mastermind of the Chowchilla bus kidnapping in 1976 and the last of the three kidnappers remaining in ...

The sign at Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla is shown in ... the largest women’s prison in the world. In response, the state has chosen to publicly shame this man, devastate ...

Thirteen women who are currently serving sentences in the Chowchilla prison filed the complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California earlier this month, asserting that ...