The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is investigating the death of a 72-year-old inmate as a homicide ...

California reached a $1.9 million settlement agreement with 13 female inmates who claim they were subjected to "war zone" level violence during a use of force incident in 2024.

California will pay $1.9 million to settle a lawsuit alleging corrections officers used excessive force, batons and chemical ...

Officials said the convicted burglar was disappeared before a morning head count the Growlersburg Conservation Camp near ...

A notorious Southern California killer who was condemned to death for his role in a 2002 murder-for-hire plot that claimed the life of a 44-year-old Orange County man has died in prison at age 50, the ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Five California correctional officers who were accused of sexually assaulting incarcerated people over the last dozen years remain employed by the state, according to a new audit ...

The Justice Department has opened an investigation of allegations that female inmates of two California prisons are subject to unconstitutional risk of harm from violent biological male inmates who ...

The Trump administration said it had sent a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom informing him of a federal investigation into two ...

The Trump administration is investigating two California prisons over the practice of housing transgender individuals in ...

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