CDCR officials at the time said corrections officers fired a “less lethal 40 mm direct impact round and chemical agents” to stop a fight between Birdon and another inmate. Robert Chalfant ...

The escape of a convicted killer from California Department of Corrections custody in Delano has shaken, angered and even ...

A California corrections officer is recovering after being stabbed twice by an inmate using a makeshift weapon, authorities announced Monday. The incident occurred around 4:30 p.m. Sunday at the ...

“You are undermined constantly at every corner, and the inmates essentially have more rights and more power than you do as correctional officers,” Jackson said. CDCR sent a statement about the ...

SAN DIEGO, California — The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is investigating an alleged attempted homicide of a peace officer at Richard J. Donovan Correctional ...

A prison guard sued the state Friday alleging the Corrections Department failed to protect her from being held hostage and sexually assaulted by an inmate. The complaint lays out in horrific ...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials are investigating the death of an inmate at North Kern State Prison as a homicide, according to CDCR. Officers were conducting ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will veto a bill that would block his state’s prison system from cooperating with ICE.

An inmate at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Center in southern County allegedly attacked an officer with an “improvised weapon” ...