San Quentin's death row cells have been modified into more humane housing, and inmates appear more like students as they move ...

California needs to close more state prisons. Reviewing Newsom’s May Revision makes that impossible to ignore. The May ...

Criminal justice advocates and formerly incarcerated organizers have criticized Governor Gavin Newsom’s revised state budget ...

But debates about the fiscal impacts of prisons miss the bigger picture issue: California’s continued high crime levels, most ...

California prison officials are investigating the death of an incarcerated man at California State Prison, Sacramento, as a homicide, authorities announced Wednesday. Staff found 49-year-old John ...

TIRELESSLY TO ENSURE JUSTICE OCCURS IN THIS CASE. OTHER NEWS RIGHT NOW, FOUR INMATES WERE INJURED IN A PRISON RIOT THAT BROKE OUT IN FOLSOM. THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS SAYS IT HAPPENED AT ...

California inmates are dying of drug overdoses at nearly triple the national rate and it's unclear whether the tough steps state officials took this year to stop illicit drugs from getting into ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A system designed to protect state inmates has led to increased violence involving so-called ‘dropout’ gangs of ...