California Institution for Women

Humans at this Location

  • Diana, 45

    I neglected myself and society as a whole, I couldn't bear it. I took a step forward to change and I went against the odds.
  • Alyce, 71

    For five days I was never given water. I was placed in a rehabbed storage room with no bathroom. I was escorted, sick with covid, to a public bathroom.
  • Alyce, 70

    Man, for the next twenty years that idiot would periodically come out, naked as usual, asking if they looked like they were hanging. Worry wart! And they say women are vain.
  • Heather, 29

    People ask me why I’m doing life in prison. It was Mother’s day, I beat Alexa down with my fists I had never before fought. The day I screamed her secrets, mourned mine, while I clawed and clutched her into admitting there had been no prenatal pills.

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