It’s the largest women’s prison in the state — and the world. But that is not the only thing the Central California Women’s ...

The 640-acre facility is the largest women’s prison in California, and holds more than 2,000 women, nonbinary and transgender ...

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

Faced with seven homicides in the first nine weeks of the year, California prison authorities announced they have restricted inmate movement and revoked privileges such as visits and phone calls ...

Privatization of prison food isn’t a new phenomenon, but it’s growing substantially. According to one market analysis, the industry was worth almost $3.2 billion in 2022 in the United States alone, ...

South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has been released from prison a day after a court cancelled his arrest warrant. Footage aired on local TV channels showed Yoon leaving prison on ...

This reliance on coerced labor has deep historical roots. After the Civil War, states—especially in the South—built a network of laws to criminalize formerly enslaved people and created a system of ...

Tory Lanez is poised to make music history with the upcoming release of his album Peterson, a project he describes as the first in-real-time prison album. Set to debut on March 7, 2025 ...

The result is a tightly packed, thought-provoking crime thriller featuring characters less concerned with busting out of prison than they are with breaking free of themselves. In Inside ...