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 top ...

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 top ...

If passed, legislation to bar reporters from accessing officials’ and candidates’ home addresses would ‘hurt trust in ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has announced the permanent closure of the California ...

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The last restrictions on March 8 were placed on nearly a dozen prisons due to a “surge in violence against staff and incarcerated people.” They ended on April 11.

For many domestic violence victims in California, the danger doesn’t end when their abuser is sentenced to prison. Instead, it becomes a waiting game until the assailant is released.

California politicians don’t realize that the state prison’s solitary confinement (better known as SHU) can be critical to operate safe facilities.

With a much larger prison population, California’s incarceration rate dropped 8% after Prop. 47 became law, according to the report’s analysis.