“CDCR and the corrections budget in general has been a black hole, a money pit,” said Brian Kaneda, CURB’s deputy director.

Samuel Bond Haskell, 37, was arrested in November 2023 in connection with the murders of his wife, Mei Haskell, her mother, ...

Gregory Rodriguez, 57, was convicted in January of sexually assaulting nine inmates at the women’s prison in Chowchilla.

A budget deficit prompted state lawmakers to trim — but not eliminate — funding for a pilot program that will pay for air ...

Two former prison facilities in Kern County could soon augment the federal government’s immigrant detention capacity as the ...

Bakersfield tax preparer admits guilt in $25 million tax fraud scheme involving stolen identities and fake businesses, facing ...

Federal authorities now say they arrested more than 360 people at two Southern California marijuana farms last week, ...

The former head of accounting at disgraced California law firm Girardi Keese was sentenced to 65 months in prison after ...

California has six privately operated immigration detention centers. Two of these — Golden State Annex in McFarland and Mesa ...

Kenneth A. Bianchi, one of the two men convicted in the "Hillside Strangler" murders, was recently denied parole in ...

A striking moment unfolded in Madera court on Monday as woman after woman recounted the abuse they suffered at the hands of ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 137 into law, giving the state the power to prevent federal immigration ...