California is unwinding the prison-building boom of the 1980s and 1990s. The cuts are falling on small towns that banked on government jobs to anchor their communities. Then the state moved to ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...