Central California Women's Facility - Notable Inmates

Notable Inmates

  • Susan Atkins, an associate of Charles Manson, was transferred to CCWF on September 24, 2008, with a diagnosis of terminal brain cancer. She died at CCWF on September 24, 2009.
  • Betty Broderick was moved from California Institution for Women to CCWF in March 1992. She became eligible for parole in March 2010. As of October 2010, she is again at the California Institution for Women.
  • Jeena Han is serving 26 years to life in prison for attempted murder and false imprisonment of her twin sister Sunny Han to assume her identity and leave the country.
  • Nikki Charm, porn star, for auto theft and burglary. Sentenced for five years in 2002.
  • Helen L. Golay, whose crimes committed in 1999 and 2005 in Los Angeles County became known as Black Widow murders. She is serving life in prison without possibility of parole.
  • Marjorie Knoller was released from CCWF and sent to Ventura County on parole in January 2004. She had reportedly just served "about 16 months" at Valley State Prison for Women.
  • Sara Kruzan is a victim of human trafficking and a convicted murderer. In 1994, at the age of 16, she was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole after being convicted of murdering her pimp; in January 2011, outgoing governor Arnold Schwarzenegger commuted her sentence to 25 years to life with the possibility of parole.
  • Ellie Nesler was first imprisoned at CCWF for a 10-year sentence beginning in January 1994. During her stay, she received treatment for breast cancer. She was released in October 1997 after a plea bargain. She was again at CCWF between 2002 and June 2006 to "serv a sentence for selling drugs."
  • Dorothea Puente "was convicted in 1993 on five counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole" at CCWF. She died at CCWF in March 2011.
  • Kristin Rossum, currently serving a life sentence in California for poisoning her husband Greg deVillers with fentanyl she stole from her job and attempting to pass off his death as a suicide, made famous from the crime show Snapped as well as other media.
  • Judy Wong, former mayor and first Chinese-American councilmember from the City of Temple City, CA. Pleaded no-contest to corruption charges and accepted a prison sentence for her role in a multi-million dollar bribery scheme involving developers.
  • Nancy Garrido, convicted along with husband Philip Garrido for kidnapping Jaycee Dugard. Serving 36 years to life imprisonment.
  • Dana Sue Gray, was convicted of killing three elderly women in 1994. Gray was sentenced on October 16, 1998., and is serving life without the possibility of parole.

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