“CDCR and the corrections budget in general has been a black hole, a money pit,” said Brian Kaneda, CURB’s deputy director.

The majority of new detainees at one Kern County facility in McFarland are immigrants with no criminal convictions, according ...

Gregory Rodriguez, 57, was convicted in January of sexually assaulting nine inmates at the women’s prison in Chowchilla.

Two former prison facilities in Kern County could soon augment the federal government’s immigrant detention capacity as the ...

A notorious exotic animal dealer who sold a jaguar cub in Riverside was sentenced to six months’ probation Monday, federal ...

California has six privately operated immigration detention centers. Two of these — Golden State Annex in McFarland and Mesa ...

The former head of accounting at disgraced California law firm Girardi Keese was sentenced to 65 months in prison after ...

Samuel Bond Haskell, 37, was arrested in November 2023 in connection with the killings of his wife, Mei Haskell, her mother, ...

A budget deficit prompted state lawmakers to trim — but not eliminate — funding for a pilot program that will pay for air ...

The opening of a new federal detention center in California City has sparked mixed reactions among local residents. The ...

The family of 74-year-old Naiping Hou has offered up to $250,000 for his safe return and the conviction of those who abducted him.

Cooper Koch, who portrayed convicted killer Erik Menendez on Ryan Murphy's 'Monsters', says Erik's brother Lyle called him to congratulate him for his recent Emmy nod: 'Very, very sweet.' ...