Bonuses and better work accommodations for mental health staffers are part of the latest bid to improve California prison ...

It was opened in 1934 as one of the most secure prisons in America, bolstered by being a maximum security prison and surrounded by water. The prison could only hold about 300 inmates. It was ...

President Trump is now getting the wheels in motion on his plan to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz as a maximum-security prison.

Officials say Stateville’s budget has stayed relatively level because of an increase in the population of a reception center ...

Could California see the end of conjugal visits at state prisons amid deaths of women? Alcatraz operated as a maximum-security prison for nearly 30 years, but reportedly closed down in 1963 ...

California prison officials are investigating the death of an incarcerated person at Mule Creek State Prison as a homicide.