The Bay Area man was killed last week in a California prison where he'd been serving a life sentence for murdering a close ...

And yet California’s prison system is still struggling to provide adequate inmate medical care, and its mental health care system is on the cusp of a federal takeover. The state remains under a ...

AKRON, Ohio — A California shipping company owner was sentenced Tuesday to 19 years in federal prison for hauling at least ...

6 would remove a provision from the California Constitution that allows jails and prisons to impose involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime. It would also ban the California Department of ...

A class action lawsuit filed against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) alleges that ...

Former inmates are suing the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, alleging the state agency has illegally ...

A judge sentenced a Northern California woman to nine years in prison on Tuesday for fraudulently obtaining more than $1 million in unemployment benefits during the height of the COVID pandemic.

The crime that put me in prison was a serious one. As a young man, I ran with gangs and was involved with drugs. I participated in activities that today I am not proud of. I make no excuses for my ...

In 1973, the state, along with then-Governor Ronald Reagan, passed the “gate money law,” which requires CA prisons to release prisoners with $200 in hopes of helping them better assimilate to ...