A DIVERSE GROUP of organizations working toward prison reform came together for a discussion about building coalitions, power ...

The banned book is “What Kind of Bird Can’t Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection,” by Dorsey Nunn and co-author Lee ...

Audit: 86% of internal prison probes flawed; 279 women have sued CDCR. The OIG warns delays and backlogs are blocking ...

Joseph Mendoza's death at Salinas Valley State Prison was posted on social media. Lawyers say CDCR staff leaked it.

California's essential health care facilities are wasting money on expensive contract labor amid chronic staffing shortages, ...

California has two prisons that primarily house women. At the larger prison, the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, former guard Gregory Rodriguez was found guilty of 64 counts of ...

Throughout California prisons, outdoor showers were condemned, water hoses in kitchen areas discontinued, and garbage disposal usage ceased. Numerous drinking fountains were turned off, and ice ...

FOLSOM, Calif. (AP) — Two California prison officers were hospitalized after an alleged attack by an incarcerated man, and authorities are investigating it as an attempted homicide, officials said ...

If you’re serving hard time inside a California prison, you’ll often find yourself stuck in a cramped cell with a complete stranger. You hang a bedsheet to manufacture the semblance of privacy between ...

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) — Lonnie Franklin, the convicted serial killer known as the "Grim Sleeper" who preyed on the women of South Los Angeles for decades, has died in a California prison. He was 67 ...

A Southern California pastor was sentenced to 45 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting three young girls he met at church. Carlos Ramirez Valdez, 61, of Riverside, was arrested in 2021 and ...