CHOWCHILLA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – At the Central California Women’s Facility ... CCWF is the largest women’s prison in the United States, housing just over 2,000 people.

a former correctional officer at Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, who in January was convicted of 64 sexual abuse charges. “We never really designed prison for women ...

Both are run by the California Department of Corrections ... lawsuits over the past two years alleging that women incarcerated at the Chowchilla prison were raped or otherwise sexually abused ...

A former prison guard was convicted Tuesday ... sexual assaults while working as a guard at Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla. Madera County Sheriff's Office Rodriguez, a 27 ...

In a warehouse-style room at the Central California Women’s Facility outside Chowchilla, Jesse Vasquez stood before a group of very attentive women in prison-issue denims. They were prospective ...

(KFSN) -- A convicted criminal who served time at the women's prison in Chowchilla ... while incarcerated at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla. "After his first cellmate ...

Tucked away in the Central Valley, Central California Women's Facility sits off Highway ... For these reasons and more, the prison in Chowchilla seems an unlikely place to have its own newspaper.

It surveyed 650 women incarcerated in Chino and Chowchilla and found that intimate partner violence often led women to long prison sentences for acts of survival. "Nearly ¾ of the women who are ...