California Gov. Newsom moves to close another state prison. That makes 5 since he took office California’s falling incarcerated population has allowed Gov. Gavin Newsom to close four state prisons.

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 ...

A convicted murder with alleged Aryan Brotherhood ties who has been kept in solitary confinement for more than a quarter of a century is driving the hunger strike in California's prison system.

In the last six years, federal prosecutors in Sacramento and Fresno have targeted the Aryan Brotherhood, the dominant criminal organization among white inmates in the California prison system. Two ...

Headway Prison Reform Left Women Behind. Then Prosecutors Stepped In. California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws ...

An inmate at a California correctional facility has been sentenced to five years in prison for his role in a scheme where drugs, phones and other items were delivered to prisons by drones, federal ...