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Two inmates have been killed and a correctional officer attacked since the beginning of June, say CDCR officials ...
The “modified program” in place imposes severe restrictions on inmates’ movements and cuts off access to visits, phone calls ...
The former correctional officer hid weapons and drugs including cocaine and methamphetamine, federal prosecutors say.
California prison officials are investigating the death of an inmate at High Desert State Prison near Susanville as a ...
Matt Rocha was once a rising star in the Nuestra Familia prison gang, but now he’s someone the gang would likely murder at ...
Avelino Ramirez, a 52-year-old Vallejo resident, confessed to planting drugs, weapons, and other illicit items in San Quentin ...
Advocates are calling on Governor Newsom to fully decommission shuttered state prisons and prevent them from being repurposed ...
Kern Valley State Prison violence in California leaves death row inmate Julian Mendez dead in attack involving multiple ...
A former California correctional officer is facing federal prison after pleading guilty to a scheme where he planted ...
California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws, ...
Former California correctional officer Avelino Ramirez pleaded guilty to wire fraud for planting contraband in prison to ...