Women make up less than 5% of California’s prison population, but that small portion faces “double punishment,” said Anne Irwin, the director of prison reform group Smart Justice California ...

Women make up less than 5% of California’s prison population, but that small portion faces “double punishment,” said Anne Irwin, the director of prison reform group Smart Justice California ...

Authorities in Los Angeles said a man known as the "Riverside Prostitute Killer" confessed to the murder of Cathy Small, 19, after his DNA was linked to the death.

California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws, until now. Headway | Prison Reform Left Women Behind.

After battling prison and addiction, mother stops women from returning to system Susan Burton called incarceration 'torture.' She spent nearly two decades in its revolving door.

The architects of a prison-reform law aimed at freeing rehabilitated prisoners is working with district attorney offices in the Bay Area and California to increase the number of women who benefit ...

Women make up less than 5% of California’s prison population, but that small portion faces “double punishment,” said Anne Irwin, the director of prison reform group Smart Justice California ...