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Central California Women's Facility (CCWF) is an American women's California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison located in Chowchilla, California. [2] It is across the road from Valley State Prison .
The original California Institution for Women was dedicated in Tehachapi in 1932; however, after the 1952 Kern County earthquake, the female inmates were transferred to the just-opened CIW in Chino, and the Tehachapi facility was rebuilt as the male-only California Correctional Institution. [13]
Correctional Training Facility: CTF Monterey: 1948 Yes 3,312 4,801 145.0% Folsom State Prison: FSP Sacramento: 1880 Yes for women 2,066 men, 403 women 2,694 men, 276 women 130.4% capacity (men's facilities), 68.5% capacity (women's facilities) FSP is the only California State Prison currently housing men and women. High Desert State Prison ...
In July, after 20 years in prison for attempted murder and a gun enhancement, Coleman, 47, became one of three dozen prisoners at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla to ...
The prison shared personnel, prisoner records, maintenance operations and business offices with the adjacent Huron Valley Men's Complex, until that complex was closed in 2009 so that women could be moved in from the Robert Scotts Correctional Facility. At this time the facility name was changed from Huron Valley Women's Complex. [4]
Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, a women's prison in the town of Bedford, New York, [3] is the only maximum security New York State women's prison. The prison previously opened under the name Westfield State Farm in 1901. [4] It lies just outside the hamlet and census-designated place Bedford Hills, New York. [5]
Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women (formerly the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women) [1] is a prison facility for women of the state of New Jersey Department of Corrections, located in Union Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, [2] [3] near Clinton. [4] Its official abbreviation is EMCFW. The facility was named for Edna Mahan (b ...
In the United States, authorities began housing women in correctional facilities separate from men in the 1870s. [21] The first American female correctional facility with dedicated buildings and staff was the Mount Pleasant Female Prison in Ossining, New York; the facility had some operational dependence on nearby Sing Sing, a men's prison. [22]