California's decision to close the prison in Susanville rocked the town, where the consequences could be dire for residents and businesses that depend on the economics of incarceration.

Prisoners represent a significant portion of Susanville’s population, 6,000-plus of the town’s 16,000 people, so losing a prison means losing funding tied to population. And Susanville’s hospital ...

CDCR officials are investigating the death of an inmate Tuesday at High Desert State Prison in Susanville, Lassen County. Officials said Joseph W. Reagan was fatally attacked in a prison day room.

In this 2021 file photo, a prison officer searches a subject on his way to drop off his laundry, inside the High Desert State Prison, near Susanville. Brian Baer Sacramento Bee file Buried in the ...

CBS News Sacramento Live. FOLSOM — State prison officials are investigating after two inmates were killed in separate attacks at two Northern California prisons.

The incident in 2006 was in some ways typical: A group of inmates at High Desert State Prison near Susanville attacked two corrections officers, and prison officials responded with a race-based ...

California prison officials are investigating the death of an inmate at High Desert State Prison near Susanville as a potential homicide. Joseph Reagan, 44, died Tuesday evening following an ...

Sierra Conservation Center near Jamestown will become the hub of operations for 14 fire camps in Northern California when the 58-year-old California Correctional Center in Susanville closes its ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed closing another prison in his revised budget proposal. Newsom didn’t specify which prison could be closing, but did propose that it could happen by October 2026. The ...

CA Court Says Prisoners Have First Amendment Right To Receive "Snail Mail" Printed From the Internet. ... Today's ruling will affect policies currently in place at San Quentin State Prison, Avenal ...