The Justice Department’s Federal Bureau of Prisons announced Wednesday that it is rolling out a new inmate tablet program ...

California closed the “Epstein loophole” so that people who are accused of serious crimes, such as child abuse, cannot use ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is restricting access to rehabilitative programming for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inmates remained on lockdown Thursday at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, Calif. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) ...

If the full name of what is now known as the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is to mean anything at ...

FILE: Growing Tulare Lake cuts off 6th Avenue south of Corcoran in Kings County. (Courtesy DWR) In 2023, amid record-breaking rain and snow, two prisons in the southern San Joaquin Valley faced a ...

Both chambers supported closing one more California in their budget plans, but Newsom’s administration has so far resisted shutting another facility.

High-security prisons across California have tightly restricted movement, calls and visits while officials probe a surge in violence this year. The restrictions started Saturday and affect the ...

A recent report from the Public Policy Institute of California found that many formerly incarcerated Californians struggle to ...

This sto ry was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Five California correctional officers who were accused of sexually assaulting incarcerated people over the last dozen ...

CHOWCHILLA, Calif. -- Jacob Smith has been in prison for two decades but he and other inmates are still taking regular trips to far-flung, exotic locales. No passport required, just a virtual reality ...