California's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is denying media access to hunger strikers in its prisons, officials said. As of Sunday, about 1,000 inmates were still on a hunger strike in protest of prolonged isolation for inmates with ties to prison gangs, KPCC public radio, Pasadena, reported. Prison officials have denied reporters ...

Nearly 150 women in California prisons were sterilized without the required approval of a state medical committee, according to a report. Some of the women say they were forced to undergo the surgery, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. "Pressuring a vulnerable population including at least one documented instance of a patient under sedation ...

As many as 30,000 inmates in California have gone on hunger strike to protest against the practice of indefinitely confining prisoners. The protest, organized by a small group of inmates in solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison near the Oregon border, focuses on policies under which prisoners are put in isolation indefinitely, some for ...