Vic Blends, whose real name is Victor Fontanez, just opened the first ever barber school inside a California state prison. He ...

July 15, 2013— -- Supporters of hunger-striking inmates met at California State Prison, Corcoran, 175 miles north of Los Angeles, on Saturday. Many of the demonstrators were family members of ...

The state’s prison population has steadily declined since 2011, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that severe overcrowding in California prisons amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.