California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are investigating after a death row inmate was killed at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano on Friday.

A procession was held Friday afternoon to honor Joshua Byrd, a parole officer fatally shot in Oakland. Byrd, 40, was a member of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR ...

California will shutter a prison in Riverside County next year as part of the multiyear effort to reduce the state's prison expenses as the average incarcerated population continues to decline.