The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and California Correctional Health Care Services, in partnership with the California Department of Human Resources, announce the State ...

The brother of the late New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez has been sentenced to 18 months of prison time already ...

The judge ordered three years of supervised release where he must stay away from all UConn properties, including Rentschler ...

Court-appointed monitors of Sacramento County jails say a man’s fatal overdose was one of multiple deaths in which deputies ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown.

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.

Investigators are working to determine if a man serving a prison term for a Sacramento County burglary was killed by his cellmate on Wednesday, according to the California Department of Corrections ...

The Laguna fire began on Thursday. The locations of several currently-burning fires in Southern California are pictured in this map image from Cal Fire. The locations of several currently-burning ...

Below is a photo from CAL Fire of multiple wildfires in Southern California: Multiple fire locations can be seen on this map of Southern California. (Photo from California Department of Forestry ...

On the first day of his second presidency, Donald Trump reversed former President Joe Biden’s executive order on private prisons. Biden’s order had barred contracts between the Department of Justice ...

A former Catholic high school teacher in Windsor who was found guilty of sexual offences has been sentenced to three years in prison ... at [email protected].

The army of firefighters battling the massive Southern California wildfires includes workers who could otherwise remain safely behind bars. As of Friday, 939 prison inmates have been deployed by ...