The state will be hard-pressed to find another purpose for a prison adjacent to another prison, Ironwood State Prison, and located nearly 100 miles away from the next closest California city.

Authorities say eight corrections officers and an incarcerated man were injured in a riot involving around 200 inmates in the recreational yard of a Southern California prison.

That would be a cost too great for California to bear. David Medina is an inmate at Ironwood State Prison in Blythe. He wrote this commentary for Zócalo Public Square.

The story is different in Norco. Some city leaders back the shutting of the prison in their rural town, the California Rehabilitation Center, and support keeping Blythe’s open instead.

State authorities this week announced they will close Chuckawalla Valley State Prison in Riverside County and stop using a privately owned facility in Lassen County.

BLYTHE, Calif. — Eight corrections officers and an incarcerated man were injured in a riot involving around 200 inmates in the recreational yard of a Southern California prison, authorities said ...

Eight corrections officers and an incarcerated man were injured in a riot involving around 200 inmates in the recreational yard of a Southern California prison, authorities said Thursday.

The violence erupted around 10 a.m. Wednesday as officers were escorting an inmate across the yard as part of a contraband investigation at Ironwood State Prison in Blythe, according to the California ...

BLYTHE, Calif. (AP) — Eight corrections officers and an incarcerated man were injured in a riot involving around 200 inmates in the recreational yard of a Southern California prison, authorities said ...