Survivors and advocates delivered urgent testimony during a budget hearing to address allegations of abuse, retaliation and ...

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A California inmate already serving life in prison for repeated attacks on corrections officers, including the murder of a corrections officer in San Bernardino County in 2005, allegedly attempted to ...

They’re pointing to a new analysis that shows the state’s incarcerated population has fallen so dramatically that California can close another prison and still have capacity for the 90,000 or so ...

California City Correctional Facility in eastern Kern County. Federal authorities are planning to open California’s largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center at the site of the ...

(FOX40.COM) –The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is taking additional security measures in response to a surge in violence against staff and inmates. On Saturday, officials ...

High-security prisons across California have tightly restricted movement, calls and visits while officials probe a surge in violence this year. The restrictions started Saturday and affect the ...

A California prison guard smuggled 20 kilograms of cocaine from Mexico to a stash house in Rowland Heights, prosecutors ...

Authorities on Thursday rolled back restrictions at nine California prisons where privileges had been suspended and inmate movements restricted because of a statewide surge in violence. Twelve other ...

High-security prisons across California have tightly restricted movement, calls and visits while officials probe a surge in violence this year. The restrictions started Saturday and affect the ...