Land in the Everglades once designated to be a jetport, is now being turned into a detention center for migrants and being ...

California sent incarcerated firefighters to battle blazes in Los Angeles this year. It's moving toward paying them minimum wage for their work in emergencies.

California leased the CoreCivic facility for use as a state prison from 2013 to March 2024, closing down operations as part of efforts to end private prisons and reduce the incarcerated population.

California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws, until now.

Dozens of grieving families gathered outside the Kings County Superior Courthouse to call on lawmakers to change prop 57.

Accessing reading material in prisons is hard, but Freedom Reads co-founder Reginald Betts, a former inmate, went beyond ...

Inmates at Salinas Valley State Prison have declared a hunger strike, effective Friday, to protest what they claim are unlawful practices by the California Department of Corrections and ...

Located in Phoenix, Towers Jail is one of the only vertical jails in the U.S. Discover how space, population growth, and policy shaped this unusual correctional structure.

The government of El Salvador has acknowledged to United Nations investigators that the Trump administration maintains ...

LOS ANGELES - They were the out-of-sight firefighters-an elite but often invisible crew on the front lines of the Pacific Palisades fire. Now, California is moving to pay incarcerated firefighters the ...

A growing hunger strike is underway in California’s prison system, launched by incarcerated individuals protesting what they ...