Prisoners are now taking regular trips to far-flung, exotic locales such as Thailand. No passport required, just a virtual ...

A system designed to protect state inmates who wish to leave gangs has backfired, leading to increased violence fueled by ...

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Kamiali Abdulsalam, Kami for short, has already been in the kitchen for several hours baking a batch of 100 sugar cookies when he pulls out chilled dough for another round — which will be cut into the ...

A serial rapist once sentenced to nearly 900 years in prison could walk free in about 14 years thanks to new California laws ...

A man sentenced to death for the 1980 rape and murder of a Seal Beach woman died in prison on Monday, Dec. 22 at the age of 80, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced ...

On Jan. 1, 2026, the California Prison Industry Authority officially became the California Correctional Training and ...

Job vacancies in prison and state hospital health care have grown even as California has invested hundreds of millions of ...