Federal officials recently visited Alcatraz as part of the president's efforts to reopen the historic site as a prison. How ...

Democrat California Rep. Nancy Pelosi told a Scripps News reporter that he is a strong contender to be a prisoner at Alcatraz.

“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 ...

A convicted murderer and gang member from Arvin, Jose Valencia, was denied parole on Wednesday, July 16, 2025, after the ...

Two Trump administration officials visited the historic Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on Thursday, just two months after ...

Two former prison facilities in Kern County could soon augment the federal government’s immigrant detention capacity as the ...

A California man convicted of trafficking fentanyl and methamphetamine in the Bozeman area was sentenced Wednesday to 15 ...

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

A former Amtrak employee has been sentenced to 25 months in prison for conspiring to steal nearly $1 million in ...

Officials allege inmate James Johnson – a convicted killer – attacked the counselor as the employee was entering a housing ...