More than a dozen state prison facilities — including four in Kern County — have been placed under a higher-than-normal level of restrictions following high rates of inmate violence and contraband.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed landmark legislation this week, ensuring that inmate firefighters receive the federal ...

AS MUCH OF THE COUNTRY WATCHED the devastating fires in Los Angeles in January that decimated the Pacific Palisades ...

COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS working toward criminal justice reform met recently with incarcerated individuals at San ...

Correctional officers at the California Rehabilitation Center (CRC) in Norco have started writing Attorney General Rob Bonta to to keep the prison open, presenting it as an option to alleviate the ...

California State Prison, Sacramento, once known as New Folsom, was opened in 1986 and is adjacent to Folsom State Prison, California’s second-oldest correctional facility. CSP Sacramento houses ...

A woman who walked away from a Sacramento County reentry program over the weekend turned herself in Monday morning — at a state prison facility nearly 400 miles south. Serena Moreno-Carrera, 25, ...

Twenty-one California prisons — including two facilities near Folsom — are immediately suspending inmate visitations following spikes in drug overdoses and violent attacks on prisoners and officers, ...