In a warehouse-style room at the Central California Women's Facility outside Chowchilla, Jesse Vasquez stood before a group of very attentive women in prison-issue denims. They were prospective ...

They were prospective applicants for CCWF’s pioneering new newspaper, put together in a newsroom next door, and Vasquez told ...

These medications are life and death for someone coming out of custody and in that state,” said Mary Taylor, a clinical ...

The suit says that for years, Dr. Scott Lee was the only full-time gynecologist at the California Institution for Women ...

In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would become a months-long hunger strike.

Women at the California Institution for Women reported sexually abusive and “sadistic” behavior during gynecology exams despite the risk of retaliation, including potential transfer to another prison, ...

A government memo aimed at implementing President Donald Trump’s order rolling back protections for transgender people has ...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officialsare investigating the alleged attempted homicide of a peace officer at Pelic ...

A California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation inmate was apprehended Thursday after he walked away from an Acton Conservation Camp.

An attempted homicide investigation is underway in a California state prison after a supervising correctional officer was reportedly attacked by three inmates, authorities announced Thursday. In a ...

Investigators are working to determine if a man serving a prison term for a Sacramento County burglary was killed by his ...