California is closing prisons because it's incarcerating fewer people. Several towns with shuttered prisons now are struggling to lure new employers.

As former residents of a California prison, we celebrated its closure but abhorred the punitive transfer process.

California has adopted a new process that could eventually allow some people serving extremely long prison sentences to receive a review for possible sentence commutation or resentencing. The rules ...

California Prison System Beginning $38M Pilot Project to Test Ways to Keep Cells Cooler at 3 Prisons As climate change exacerbates the risks of extreme heat across California, the state’s prison ...

Correctional officers at the California Rehabilitation Center (CRC) in Norco have started writing Attorney General Rob Bonta to to keep the prison open, presenting it as an option to alleviate the ...

A Southern California prison inmate is being held in restricted housing after his cellmate was found unresponsive during a ...

A man sentenced to death for fatally shooting an Orange County store manager during a botched robbery nearly 30 years ago has died in prison, state corrections officials announced Friday. Daniel C.

Los Angeles (AP) — California ‘s prison system has systematically failed to protect incarcerated women from sexual abuse and harassment by guards, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday.

VR Headsets Are 'Hope Machines' Inside California Prisons, Offering Escape and Practical Experience CHOWCHILLA, Calif. (AP) — Jacob Smith has been in prison for two decades, but he and other inmates ...