What’s Really Happening in California Prisons? | Amie Ichikawa

California’s women’s prisons house just under 4,000 people. Since SB 132 took effect, 48 biological men have transferred into those facilities. A federal investigation is now underway.

A criminal case out of Madera County is moving through the courts. Women who have raised concerns about their housing conditions have faced institutional consequences. The transfer criteria that determined who qualified had no medical requirement, no risk assessment, and no surgery threshold.

Amie Ichikawa, Executive Director of Woman II Woman, joins the show to walk through the transfer criteria, the committee process, and what the women inside are and are not able to say.

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