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  2. Women's prisons are rife with trauma. Can California set a ...

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    Every day, they fan out across the prison, serving as something between a therapist and life coach to the roughly 2,100 women incarcerated at the facility, one of two women's prisons in California.

  3. Trans activist Buck Angel: Trans inmates who want to be in ...

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    Several incarcerated women have also allegedly been raped in custody by male inmates who identified as females and were transferred into women’s prisons. “Real trans women [in prison] don’t ...

  4. Widespread sexual abuse of women in two California prisons ...

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    Sexual abuse of incarcerated women is a widespread problem in facilities nationwide, with government surveys suggesting that more than 3,500 women are sexually abused by prison and jail workers ...

  5. Decatur Correctional Center - Wikipedia

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    The prison, which includes the "Moms and Babies" program, [2] has the only nursery for newborn babies in IDOC; it has eight cells in the E-Wing equipped with childcare facilities. Women convicted of nonviolent offenses may care for their newborns while serving time. [3] The cells are video-monitored, and do not have bars.

  6. Bureau of Prisons to close California women's prison where ...

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    The federal Bureau of Prisons said Monday it is planning to close a women's prison in California known as the “rape club” despite attempts to reform the troubled facility after an Associated ...

  7. Solitary confinement of women in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In some prisons, women may be put into solitary confinement because their mental health issues prove to be too difficult for the authorities to deal with or are exhausting their resources. [11] If the prison authorities are unable to address their inmates’ health concerns, they may put them into solitary confinement to avoid solving the problem.

  8. Incarceration of women - Wikipedia

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    Unlike prisons designed for men in the United States, state prisons for women evolved in three waves, as described in historical detail in Partial Justice: Women in State Prisons by Nicole Hahn Rafter. First, women prisoners were imprisoned alongside men in the "general population," where they were subject to sexual attacks and daily forms of ...

  9. Bureau of Prisons continues to evade questions about sexual ...

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    The nation’s only medical prison for women, FMC Carswell had the highest rate and number of sexual assault allegations against staff at any federal women’s prison from 2014 to 2018, the Star ...