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CHOWCHILLA, CA – According to reports, at least one female prison inmate at the Central California Women’s Facility has turned up pregnant since the state passed legislation allowing biological men to be housed in biological women’s prison facilities.

Women made up 7 percent of all inmates in state and federal prisons last year and accounted for nearly one in four arrests, the government reported Sunday. A co-author of a Bureau of Justice Statistics report, Paige Harrison, linked an upswing in the rate of arrest for women to their increased participation in drug crimes, violent crimes and fraud. The number of women incarcerated in state and federal prisons in 2004 was up 4 percent compared to 2003, nearly double the 1.8 percent increase among men, the study said. In 1995, women made up 6.1 percent of all inmates in...

<p>THREE decades after being sent to prison for trying to assassinate President Gerald Ford, Charles Manson disciple Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme has found love - with a lesbian serial killer.</p> <p>Kristen Gilbert, a former Northampton, Mass., veterans affairs nurse, was convicted in 2001 of poisoning four patients in her care. Now she is said to be carrying on a caged-heat affair with none other than Manson's former groupie Fromme.</p>

Guards fear female violence Plan would substitute more counselling for security restrictions CALGARY (CP) -- A long-awaited plan to handle the most violent women in Canada's prisons stresses intensive counselling instead of maximum-security restrictions faced by male inmates. Guards warn the plan could backfire and actually create more violence. Union president Sylvain Martel says it will take more than hugs and respect to change the behaviour of the most dangerous female offenders as they are transferred from special wings at men's penitentiaries into new secure units at four women's prisons. "We are predicting that it's going to be a nightmare,...