![]() Barbara Graham, murderer, and subject of the 1958 film I Want to Live!. ![]() Story told in September 2013 on Investigation Discovery's Deadly Women "Heartless Souls" (Was recently moved to California Institution for Women (CIW) in 2014.) Julia Rodriquez Diaz (First female inmate to receive 15 years parole denial under Proposition 9 ( Marsy's Law) Convicted in July 1979 of the murder of seven-year-old boy Javier Angel.She has failed her first three opportunities for parole, in 2010, 2011, and 2017, respectively, due to an apparent “lack of remorse” and “denial of any wrongdoing.” She was convicted in 1991 and was sentenced to 32-years-to-life in prison. Betty Broderick, a current inmate, was a San Diego socialite who was convicted of the 1989 murder of her ex-husband, Dan Broderick, and his new wife, Linda Kolkena Broderick.She was arrested again in 2019 for domestic violence. She was sentenced to a 12-year sentence for four felony burglary counts and one count each of vehicular theft and being a felon in possession of a firearm, and was released in 2018 after serving 5 years. Renee Alway, a former inmate, is a noted American model and a former contestant of America's Next Top Model and Modelville runner-up. ![]() From Januto July 2016 six women committed suicide at CIW, and there had been an increase in suicide attempts. įrom 2006 to 2013 one woman at CIW committed suicide. ![]() In 2007, the state of California proposed building 45 new units for mentally ill inmates at CIW and 975 at the nearby California Institution for Men local officials opposed such plans. Among other programs for inmates at CIW is "Voices from Within" in which inmates read books on tapes for "high school students in remedial classes," "college students with reading disabilities," and the blind. In the early years of CIW, convicted women wore Sunday dresses while walking and working at the campus-like setting until the 1980s when three towers were added with officers atop armed with shotguns. CIW was the only women's prison in California until 1987, when the Northern California Women's Facility opened. CIW was originally called "California Institution for Women at Corona," but "Corona residents objected to the use of their city in the prison's name and it was changed March 1, 1962, to Frontera, a feminine derivative of the word frontier, symbolic for a new beginning." It housed the location of the death row for women in the state. The original California Institution for Women was dedicated in Tehachapi in 1932 however, after the 1952 Kern County earthquake, the female inmates were transferred to the just-opened CIW in Chino, and the Tehachapi facility was rebuilt as the male-only California Correctional Institution. ĬIW is located east of Downtown Los Angeles, and it takes about one hour to travel to the prison from Downtown LA. Īs of April 30, 2020, CIW was incarcerating people at 111.1% of its design capacity, with 2,640 occupants. As of October 31, 2013, it had a design capacity of 1,398 but a total institution population of 2,155, for an occupancy rate of 154.1 percent. In addition, a Reception Center "provides short term housing to process, classify and evaluate incoming inmates." Īs of Fiscal Year 2008/2009, CIW had 977 staff and an annual budget of $75 million Institutional and $2.6 million Education. Its facilities include Level I ("Open dormitories without a secure perimeter") housing, Level II ("Open dormitories with secure perimeter fences and armed coverage") housing, and Level III ("Individual cells, fenced perimeters and armed coverage") housing. Although the official California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation documents give a "Corona, California" mailing address for CIW in Riverside County, the prison has been physically located in the city of Chino since 2003 following an annexation of land in previously- unincorporated San Bernardino County. ![]()
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