With our free press under threat and federal funding for public media gone, your support matters more than ever. Help keep the LAist newsroom strong, become a monthly member or increase your support ...

The federal Bureau of Prisons is shutting down its Terminal Island facility near Los Angeles over concerns about crumbling ...

California City Correctional Facility in eastern Kern County. Federal authorities are planning to open California’s largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center at the site of the ...

Some officials say it’s time to rethink shared quarters for inmates because of the risk of violence and the detriment to ...

More than 1,800 inmates and staff have been infected with the virus. San Quentin State Prison in California has erected tents and is converting a warehouse to treat a coronavirus outbreak that's ...

California over the past dozen years enacted a series of criminal justice laws that were meant to give more people an opportunity to be resentenced and thin out the state’s severely overcrowded ...

Reality Check is a Bee series holding officials and organizations accountable and shining a light on their decisions. Have a tip? Email [email protected]. Five years after Gov. Gavin Newsom ...