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

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 ...

A death at Calipatria State Prison (CAL) on November 10, 2025, is being investigated as a homicide after an incarcerated person was attacked in an exercise yard. Prison staff responded to Eric ...

Three inmates at California State Prison in the Antelope Valley have been placed in restrictive housing after a fourth inmate ...

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 ...

California officials say inmates have ended their nearly two-month hunger strike to protest the prison system's isolation policies. More than 30,000 inmates had been refusing meals when the strike ...

Inmates at Ironwood State Prison in Blythe are helping lift the burden on Riverside County’s packed animal shelters by fostering impounded canines, training them in basic obedience and preparing them, ...

An incarcerated person's constitutional right to a safe and healthy environment in a single occupancy cell cannot be withheld ...

Corrections officials adopted new criminal sentencing rules on Friday that aim to trim California's prison population by 9,500 inmates after four years. They include steps like reducing inmates' ...

A federal judge overrode a California state law on Friday to help combat a growing problem of inmates dying from drug overdoses. U.S. Judge Thelton Henderson of San Francisco approved waiving state ...