The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has announced the resumption of normal operations and ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation had restricted inmate movements and suspended privileges at 21 prisons due to a statewide surge in violence.

Today, Pelican Bay State Prison wants to be a model again. One 900-square-foot classroom, lined with computers, is now an accredited part of California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt.

Today, Pelican Bay State Prison wants to be a model again. One 900-square-foot classroom, lined with computers, is now an accredited part of California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt.

The image is grainy, the fixed camera angle is awkward, and the audio is muffled and scratchy. But the revelatory footage, shot inside California’s supermax Pelican Bay prison, strips bare a moment in ...

For a second week, North California’s Pelican Bay State Prison was placed on generator power after wildfires within five miles of the facility knocked out electricity. Lingering wildfire smoke ...

Torres Lopez was sentenced to 19 years and eight months in prison on Aug. 16, 2021, after he was convicted in the South Bay of attempted second-degree murder, carrying a firearm in public with a ...

The punishment was severe: He was sent to a special supermax unit at the state’s highest-security prison, Pelican Bay. The facility was designed to isolate men deemed the “worst of the worst.” ...

A Sacramento County inmate at Pelican Bay State Prison is one of three facing attempted homicide charges in an attack on a ...

A Pelican Bay State Prison inmate allegedly attacked and killed another inmate in a housing unit dayroom Friday evening. Fernando Torres Lopez, 23, allegedly attacked Uriel Otero, 22, at about 5: ...

A Sacramento County inmate at Pelican Bay State Prison is one of three facing attempted homicide charges in an attack on a guard Thursday morning, said state corrections officials.