Prisoners are conducting contraband shakedowns and cell counts, and increasingly called on for "gladiator system" beatings as staff looks on.

Luis Armando Albino was six years old in 1951 when he was abducted while playing at an Oakland, Calif., park. Now, more than ...

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

The state spends $15 billion a year on the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, with the cost of ...

California prison officials are investigating the killing of a Livermore man serving time in Kern Valley State Prison in ...

The newspaper recalled that over a week ago 158 Mexicali police officers were removed from rural areas and replaced by state ...

A French man admitted in court that for nearly a decade, he repeatedly drugged his unwitting wife and invited dozens of men ...

In the week after Hurricane Ida, when an enormous generator powering Lafourche Parish’s 675-person jail threatened to ...

A Farmington woman is facing felony charges after law enforcement uncovered a plan for her to sneak meth into the state ...

Prop. 6 would ban forced labor in California prisons, while still allowing people in prison to work to earn good-time credits ...

While incarcerated Californians who aren’t serving felony sentences are eligible to vote, most county jails don’t make it ...