Ending prolonged solitary confinement is a matter of prison and public safety, as well as humanity. The time to act upon this ...

The union representing correctional officers opposed the recommendation, arguing closing the Soledad prison was “shortsighted ...

Officials at California State Prison, Sacramento, are investigating the death of John Cisneros as a homicide involving his ...

Convicted California child molester David Funston was arrested on new charges just before his scheduled parole release this ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom pushed California's prison system to embrace rehabilitation for incarcerated people. Will it be a lasting shift?

California’s parole board is using unreliable drug test results in decisions about releasing incarcerated people despite flaws that were exposed in a rash of false positives two years ago, more than a ...

While California’s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office has recommended closing another prison to save the state millions ...

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 ...