California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing blowback after unveiling a new $239 million rehabilitation center at the infamous San ...

California’s parole board is using unreliable drug test results in decisions about releasing incarcerated people despite flaws that were exposed in a rash of false positives two years ago, more than a ...

A former California correctional lieutenant, Matthew L. Madsen, was arrested on federal charges alleging he smuggled cellphones and tobacco to an inmate in exchange for $100,000 in bribes.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inmates remained on lockdown Thursday at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, Calif. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) ...

A 36-year-old man was stabbed nearly 180 times at a California state prison and someone inside captured video of the gruesome ...

Two inmates in a California state prison are being investigated for the alleged murder of a third inmate in one of the facility’s yards on Sunday, officials with the California Department of ...

California City Correctional Facility in eastern Kern County. Federal authorities are planning to open California’s largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center at the site of the ...

The family of a Merced inmate fatally stabbed nearly 180 times at a state prison is suing the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for “deliberate indifference” after horrifying ...

A former Northern California prison lieutenant was arrested Monday on federal charges accusing him of smuggling contraband ...

A former California state correctional lieutenant was arrested in Greenfield on Monday on suspicion of conspiring to smuggle ...

Authorities on Thursday rolled back restrictions at nine California prisons where privileges had been suspended and inmate movements restricted because of a statewide surge in violence. Twelve other ...