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

The family of a Merced inmate fatally stabbed nearly 180 times at a state prison is suing the California Department of ...

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.

The family of a man stabbed to death inside a California prison has filed a lawsuit alleging that prison employees recorded ...

Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez was released from prison following a 2022 shooting, the California Department ...

Two frustrated women’s advocacy groups have launched a billboard truck campaign across California, demanding attention to concerning rise in trans prisoners raping women. The campaign, organized by ...

An incarcerated person's constitutional right to a safe and healthy environment in a single occupancy cell cannot be withheld on the condition that she or he be good.

From CalMatters deputy editor Adam Ashton: Gov. Gavin Newsom shouldn’t expect much pushback from the next city in line to lose a state prison. Norco in Riverside County for years has been lobbying to ...

Twenty-one California prisons - including two facilities near Folsom - are immediately suspending inmate visitations following spikes in drug overdoses and violent attacks on prisoners and officers, ...

Anyone who has followed the devastating violence in California’s prisons knows that gang rivalries trigger a lot of the bloodshed. So it stood to reason that if the authorities could get members to ...