California needs to close more state prisons. Reviewing Newsom’s May Revision makes that impossible to ignore. The May Revision, Newsom’s annual revised budget proposal, gives ...

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

A corrections counselor at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City is suing the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for interest on back pay that was seized in what he described ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Immigrants in shackles at the Adelanto Detention Facility in California in 2013. (John Moore / Getty Images) On Aug. 18, 2022, a ...

SACRAMENTO — The state's prison system is run by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), but it turns out that only about half of the state's inmates are actually ...

California’s prison system used inappropriate tactics to whittle down a backlog of staff misconduct cases, according to a new special review from the Office of the Inspector General, the state’s ...

California will shutter a prison in Riverside County next year as part of the multiyear effort to reduce the state's prison expenses as the average incarcerated population continues to decline. On ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - More than half the people who were released from California prisons did not re-offend, according to a new report conducted by the California Department of Corrections and ...

"Something happened that was not supposed to happen," said the attorney who represents the 13 women who sued California prison officials.

Condemned California prisoners reportedly watch pornography on taxpayer-funded tablets meant for education, according to ...