Hours after officials announced the closure of the troubled Federal Correctional Institute in Dublin, a judge paused all transfers of its female inmates.

The California prison system is beginning a $38 million pilot project to test ways to keep cells cooler. It involves a ...

The Department of Justice is investigating allegations of rape, groping and sexual harrassment by correctional officials in California women's prisons.

A former correctional officer at the biggest women's prison in California has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting at least 13 inmates over the past nine years.

LOS ANGELES — The beleaguered federal Bureau of Prisons said Monday it will close a women’s prison in California known as the “rape club” despite attempts to reform the troubled facility ...

A women’s prison in California so plagued by sexual abuse that it was known among inmates and workers as the”rape club” will be closed, the head of the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced ...

Gynecologist at California prison for women sexually abused patients, including pregnant woman, during exams. Former inmates sue doctor.

Women have filed hundreds of lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by prison staff, including forcible rape.

While the number of dismissals for sexual misconduct are extremely rare among the roughly 26,000 correctional officers who work at California prisons, inmate advocates say sexual abuse by staff is ...

Central California Women’s Facility inmates sued prison officers after they were beaten and pepper sprayed after filing sexual assault claims.

At federal women’s prison in California, a toxic culture of sexual abuse, cover-ups The accusations regarding ‘the rape club’ at the prison in Dublin, Calif., have resulted in four arrests ...

A women's prison in California so plagued by sexual abuse that it was known among inmates and workers as the "rape club" will be closed, the head of the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced Monday ...