The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) said on Monday it is investigating a homicide that took ...

One of the critical jobs that prisoners can be required to work is fighting wildfires. While salaried firefighters in ...

Inmate Darius Swain, 41, was found unresponsive in his cell Saturday afternoon. The suspect is Gregory Clark, 58.

Six officers were hurt and three inmates were transferred to other institutions after a brawl at Kern Valley State Prison on ...

California prison officials are currently investigating a death at Kern Valley State Prison, which has been classified as a ...

Proposition 6, a proposed amendment that would end forced labor in state prisons ... has allowed prisons to force prison workers to work and pay them under a dollar an hour. California is one ...

Vice President Kamala Harris’ home state of California is on track to reject a ballot measure that would ban forced labor in state prisons. Proposition 6 was an effort to ban slavery by creating ...

The Sing Sing maximum security prison in New York held its first-ever film festival recently, with incarcerated men invited ...

Proposition 6 amends the state Constitution to remove a ... incarcerated people and only 40,000 jobs within the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Prop 6 would have amended the California Constitution to prohibit state prisons from forcing incarcerated people to work. It would also prevent the California Department of Corrections and ...

Governor Gavin Newsom, 56, announced in 2022 that the golden state ... another location that does not rely on its prison so ...