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

The private prison company CoreCivic has sold two of the largest immigration detention facilities in California to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in a deal worth $1.5 billion, the company ...

Miguel Banuelos, the 49-year-old inmate who escaped a California prison camp near Lake Tahoe on the Fourth of July, was ...

California prisons are limiting access to programs for incarcerated people as the system manages it overtime budget. The ...

A California correctional officer stands at a gate on the grounds of Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, in July 2021. Andrew Kuhn akuhn@mercedsun-star.com California spends a lot of money running its ...

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 ...

Anyone who has followed the devastating violence in California’s prisons knows that gang rivalries trigger a lot of the bloodshed. So it stood to reason that if the authorities could get members 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 ...

Victor Fontanez and Scott Budnick made history this year. The pair, who linked up through a mutual acquaintance, came together while tapping into their respective expertise to open the first barber ...

Private prison company CoreCivic will continue operating the centers in San Diego and Kern County after selling the ...