The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is placing Level IV high-security sections within its facilities on modified program in response to a surge in violence against staff and ...

California has inked a contract to pay up to $315 million to a company that has sued the state multiple times in recent years ...

Right now in the US, the total population held in prison is nearly 2 million people, over 20 percent of the world's prisoners. Of those, over 122,000 US citizens are forced to endure solitary ...

The Corcoran facility where Gutsu had come from months ago was also placed under restriction. Since Jan. 1, seven inmates have been killed in incidents deemed homicides by CDCR officials.

Asked for more information about the restrictions, CDCR spokesperson Terri Hardy said only that officials are conducting ... Merino, 37, died after he was attacked by two inmates in Kern Valley State ...

CDCR would not go into details on how Peterson was injured. Peterson was convicted for the deaths of Laci and Connor on Christmas Eve in 2002, but the LA Innocence Project drew renewed attention ...

In a statement dated March 8, officials from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation cited a "surge" in violence directed at both inmates and staff as the reason for the crackdown ...

Four sheriff’s deputies at Men’s Central Jail were attacked Sunday by a group of inmates armed with a shank, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials and two sources ...

Brittany Hall, 31, was indicted by a federal grand jury on March 6 — charged with sexually abusing four inmates while she was the guard in charge of supervising the MCC’s Unit 12. Hall ...

and modified program will remain in place until the assessment is complete," CDCR reported. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A slew of recent violence in state prisons is bringing new rules to inmates at ...