In response to a recent surge in violence at California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation facilities, prison authorities conducted contraband enforcement sweeps at more than 20 ...

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

California is closing another state prison. Find out which one, why it's being closed, and how much money the state projects ...

California is increasing restrictions at its highest security men’s prisons, including at a facility in Los Angeles County where two officers have been stabbed in the last 10 days, as it ...

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

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation had restricted inmate movements and suspended privileges at 21 prisons because of a statewide surge in violence.

After serving several decades in prison, Erik and Lyle Menendez are facing the possibility of freedom as the California Board ...

A two-month 2013 hunger strike involving thousands of inmates at 24 California state prisons came just a year after riots that also indicated sophisticated levels of communication between inmates.

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.

California State Prison, Los Angeles County in Lancaster, CA., Friday, April 3, 2020. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) ...