On Friday morning, California Attorney General Rob Bonta revealed the results of a new report on conditions inside immigration detention facilities, which he described as “cruel, inhumane, and ...

California enacted a law during the first Trump administration requiring state oversight of immigrant detention facilities.

The California City Detention Facility, formerly known as the California City Correctional Facility, in California City in 2014. Photo by Anthony Albright via Wikipedia Welcome to CalMatters, the only ...

A female prison warden has been charged with raping an inmate holed up inside a men’s jail. Johnesha Rucker, 28, was nabbed ...

An 82-year-old paedophile has been jailed for 26 years after he sexually abused two young girls. Michael Hines, of Coates ...

The reports detail how guards have increasingly used chemical agents and physical tactics on detainees, including groups ...

In the lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana in 2021, inmates claimed prison officials kept them in ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — It has been a long process, but the new men’s prison in Sioux Falls has taken a step forward. Officials broke ground on the project Wednesday morning. The new site will be ...

HOUSTON COUNTY, Ga. — A Perry man accused of strangling a woman he was banned from contacting was sentenced on Tuesday after pleading guilty earlier this month to other charges, according to a press ...

A new independent study ordered by San Diego County’s civilian oversight board has put stark numbers on a long‑running jail crisis: more than half of the deaths inside county lockups over the past ...

The union that represents New York State corrections officers sent a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul describing a crisis unfolding in the state's prison system. The letter from the NYS Correctional ...