Women Ousted From California Co-ed Prison
The Norco prison that houses the state's only coed inmate population has stopped accepting female prisoners and plans to transfer the women already there to make room for more men.
The move reflects both the corrections department's desperation for space in all of its 33 prisons as well as a burgeoning movement to reform the way women are treated in California prisons.
The prison always has had an unprecedented mix of genders because of its intensive drug rehabilitation efforts. Of the prison's roughly 700 female inmates, about 500 are drug addicts sentenced to rehabilitation; the rest are felons. PAIGE AUSTIN from The Press-Enterprise on Fox11AZ News