Feb. 27—State prison officials confirmed two facilities in Kern County can start taking prisoners again, as local law enforcement officials worked last week to address a backlog of hundreds of state ...

A Marin County Superior Court judge on Thursday ruled that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and San Quentin State Prison violated the rights of inmates when the two ...

A year after prisons suspended in-person visits statewide, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is beginning a phased reopening plan that allows limited visitation starting next ...

The majority of the staff at the Sierra Conservation Center (SCC) state prison in Jamestown are unvaccinated, but a federal ruling on Monday mandating vaccinations for all California Department of ...

OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Civil rights law firm Haddad & Sherwin LLP announced today that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has given the green light to multiple ...

California prison officials are suspending in-person and family visits to inmates starting Saturday because of increasing COVID-19 cases among staff and inmates, officials announced Friday. The halt ...

An inmate at the California Institution for Men in Chino has died from complications of coronavirus, prison officials announced Sunday, the first fatality reported among the 115 prisoners who have ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Guards, janitors, administrators and other California corrections personnel who don't provide health care services directly but who may be exposed to the coronavirus will now be ...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - With a new and more infectious coronavirus variant sweeping California, attorneys representing inmates say violations of health orders by prison staff risk a repeat of the outbreaks ...