"Inmates would always say if the public ever found out what the women's federal penitentiary was all about, there would be a ...

Former Dublin federal prison guard Lawrence Gacad will not be trading places with the people he once supervised. Instead, the ex-correctional officer at the now-shuttered Federal Correctional ...

The Federal Correctional Institution Terminal Island is closing due to crumbling underground tunnels and other infrastructure ...

Advocates say we're the only state without a law requiring release of dying inmates in some circumstances, and will press the ...

CoreCivic and GEO Group profit from Trump’s immigration policies while also receiving lucrative contracts from state and local governments, including areas controlled by Democrats.

The federal Bureau of Prisons is closing a California lockup that was once home to Al Capone and Charles Manson over concerns ...

The decision to close the facility, at least temporarily, “is not easy, but is absolutely necessary,” Director William K.

Authorities are searching for a 28-year-old incarcerated man who walked away from La Cima Conservation Camp in San Diego ...

California’s $17.5 billion prison system is over budget, contributing to a projected state deficit. Some groups want him to ...

Attorneys from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Stanford Law School filed 18 petitions seeking to reduce the prison terms of ...

Stanford's Three Strikes Project and the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund aims to overturn 18 prison sentences in California using ...