Harrowing accounts of violence and sex abuse in women's prison told in new podcast

NPR | By Michael Levitt,

Joel Rose, Michelle Aslam

Published October 11, 2026 at 5:16 PM EDT

Madi Bolanos and Anna Sussman's new podcast We Are Jane Doe, by KQED and Snap Studios, investigates rampant sex abuse at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, Ca.

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Joel Rose is a correspondent on NPR's National Desk. As the network’s transportation correspondent since 2023, Rose’s reporting focuses on roadway and pedestrian safety, an air travel system under stress and how emerging technologies are changing the ways we get around.

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