Colby Braun, director of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, speaks during the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Heart River Correctional Center on April 2, 2025. (Michael ...

California ministry sponsors compromise bill, arguing that “one community’s safety cannot come at the cost of another’s.” In 2008, while Amie Ichikawa was serving her sentence at the Central ...

Prison doulas and legislative interventions can be a lifeline for incarcerated pregnant women. But the most important solution is to abolish prison births altogether. After utilizing a doula while ...

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