{"id":432008,"date":"2026-08-13T19:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T19:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/432008\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T19:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T19:26:10","slug":"california-womens-prisons-failing-to-protect-prisoners-from-sexual-abuse-doj-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/432008\/","title":{"rendered":"California women&#8217;s prisons failing to protect prisoners from sexual abuse, DOJ says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CALIFORNIA (KFSN) &#8212; The Department of Justice found that California women&#8217;s prisons are failing to protect their female prisoners from sexual abuse by staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The report includes the Central California Women&#8217;s Prison in Chowchilla, along with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the California Institution for Women in Chino.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Investigators had uncovered a longstanding pattern of staff sexual misconduct, along with insufficient safeguards, failures in confidential reports, improper investigative practices and inadequate accountability measures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The DOJ says these findings violate the prisoners&#8217; rights under the Eighth and 14th amendments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">California has been provided with ways to address the violations, including training, better camera coverage and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The state has 49 days to make changes, or else the attorney general may initiate litigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Action News reached out to the CDCR for comment, but has not heard back.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALIFORNIA (KFSN) &#8212; The Department of Justice found that California women&#8217;s prisons are failing to protect their female&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[171631,7,9,8,171629,171630,15836,5560,294],"class_list":["post-432008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-171631","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-california-womens-prisons","tag-chowchilla-prison","tag-sexual-abuse","tag-staff","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}