A recently shuttered federal women's prison could reopen as an ICE detention center as part of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.

OAKLAND, Calif. – A federal jury has deadlocked for the second time in a trial of a former correctional officer charged with sexually abusing four inmates at a now-closed federal women’s prison in ...

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.

It's known as the Pulitzers of prison journalism. The American Penal Press Contest celebrates the work of incarcerated writers. NBC Bay Area's Jessica Aguirre went inside the Central California ...

Over the course of several years, two women's prisons in California signed at least 150 pregnant women up for permanent sterilization to be performed after they gave birth, without following the ...

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 ...

NBC Bay Area was granted rare access inside Central California Women's Facility (CCWF) in Chowchilla. It is the largest of two women prisons in the state. CCWF is located in rural Madera County. On ...

FILE - An official walks toward an entrance to the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, Calif., March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A federal jury has deadlocked ...