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

If accepted, today's appeal could be a first step to reclaim the Compton's Cafeteria riot location after more than 30 years.

Methodology. To identify the biggest prisons in California and how crowded they are, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed inmate counts in 32 of the state’s adult correctional institutions.

The California Correctional Center in Susanville, a rural town whose residents depend on jobs at the minimum-security state prison to sustain their economy.

Eighty-one years after California incarcerated its first 'ward,' the state's notoriously grim youth prison system is shutting down. But will young offenders fare any better in county lockups?

Unlike most of the California prison system, where there are gang controlled white showers, Black showers and Latino showers, white tables for eating, Black tables and Latino tables, in this open ...

The state of California has moved the responsibilities of state-run prisons to the county level. The move gives young offenders a higher likelihood of staying closer to home.

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