hear from volunteer inmates about life in prison. This program was featured in an episode on Arts and Entertainment Television Network called "Beyond Scared Straight". Freedom to Choose is an all volunteer service project of the University of Santa Monica that has been teaching decriminogenic life skills and forgiveness workshops at VSPW twice a year since March 2004, and was featured in a documentary that was awarded Best Documentary at the Emerging Filmmakers Showcase, American Pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009. Conversion to male institution The CDCR began converting the prison into a facility for low-risk male inmates in 2012. The conversion was completed in January 2013, with the last female inmates in the facility transferred to the nearby Central California Women's Facility and California Institution for Women (CIW) in Chino, San Bernardino County, California. Some inmates nearing the end of their sentence have been transferred to various county jails. Notable inmates Current inmates Andrew Luster, convicted rapist. Royce Casey, one of the rapists and murderers of Elyse Pahler. John Ewell, activist and convicted serial killer. Former inmates Charles Andrew Williams, perpetrator of the Santana High School shooting. Larissa Schuster, sentenced to life in prison without parole for submerging her husband's body in hydrochloric acid. 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. Story told in 2013 in the Deadly Women episode "Heartless Souls" (was moved to California Institution for Women (CIW) in 2014). Diane Downs, convicted in the State of Oregon Laura Ann Doyle, perpetrator of the murder of Missy Avila Marjorie Knoller, involved in the death of Diane Whipple Sally McNeil, a female bodybuilder who was convicted for the murder of her husband and Mr. Olympia competitor, Ray McNeil. References External links Valley State Prison for Women official webpage (Archive) Amnesty International's findings and recommendations relating to Valley State Prison (California). 1 April 1999. 1995 establishments in California Chowchilla, California Women's prisons in California Buildings and structures in Madera County, California