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

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

Authorities are investigating the suspicious death of an inmate at a Northern California prison after he was found ...

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

An incarcerated man has died at Mule Creek State Prison during medical rounds, and the California Department of Corrections ...

Nearly three months later, family members and lawyers still haven’t been able to speak with the men the U.S. summarily sent ...

The backstory: The notorious, maximum-security prison shut down in 1963 after ... but many officials in California said the idea is preposterous. State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) said ...

The prison’s investigative unit and the Kern County District Attorney’s Office are investigating the incident.

A Fresno man already serving time in a Northern California prison is accused of ... Patron was sent to the Vacaville prison, which houses minimum-, medium-, maximum, and high-security inmates, after ...

Glen Stewart Godwin was serving a sentence of more than 25 years for a stabbing murder when he escaped in June 1987 from the ...