Gavin Newsom announced plans for California to shutter some of its prisons, the state's prison budget is reflecting savings.

DETENTION PREVENTION: While Donald Trump was in Florida touting the opening of “Alligator Alcatraz,” Gov. Gavin Newsom signed ...

The Sentencing Project released a report on Wednesday detailing the barriers that prevent incarcerated people from voting in ...

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

Kern Valley State Prison violence in California leaves death row inmate Julian Mendez dead in attack involving multiple inmates, prompting investigation by prison officials and district attorney.

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California has halted a court-ordered medical parole program, opting instead to send its most incapacitated prisoners back to state lockups or release them early.

In a historic shift, California plans to pay incarcerated firefighters $7.25/hr during active fires, recognizing their ...

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

After California finished gradually opening up the program to that population last year ... The budget deal maintains his proposal to close a fifth state prison by next October, which could save an ...

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