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Women's prisons are rife with trauma. Can California set a new course at Chowchilla?
Gazing across the crowd of women, fresh from county jail in their orange prison jumpsuits, Lena Coleman wishes she could save them all. And it's her job to try. In July, after 20 years in prison ...
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Can California change a dark culture at Chowchilla women’s prison?
CHOWCHILLA, Calif. — Gazing across the crowd of women, fresh from county jail in their orange prison jumpsuits, Lena Coleman wishes she could save them all. And it’s her job to try.
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Women in prison
In outline form, Velma Reilly's story isn't much different from most women serving prison terms with the Wyoming Department of Corrections. Some call them perpetrators. Some call them victims.