California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed landmark legislation this week, ensuring that inmate firefighters receive the federal ...

Inmate firefighters in California will receive higher pay and the state will make permanent firefighting camps that train and ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- State prison officials say as many as 17,600 California inmates may be released early due to the coronavirus, 70% more than previously estimated and a total that victims and ...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials are investigating the death of an inmate at High Desert ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed legislation to boost the pay of state prisoners assigned to battle California wildfires.

Two inmates at California State Prison Solano are under investigation after an inmate died following a prison yard attack Wednesday morning.

California state prison officials said an inmate is accused of trying to kill a psychiatrist during a one-on-one meeting on Friday. Jose L. Ramirez, 35, was identified as the inmate. The attack ...

Officials with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation are investigating the death of an incarcerated man ...

Over the course of several years, two women's prisons in California signed at least 150 pregnant women up for permanent sterilization to be performed after they gave birth, without following the ...

A 27-year-old California State Prison, Solano inmate was stabbed with an “improvised weapon” and died Wednesday and two other ...