Assemblymember Damon Connolly and San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins have announced a bill intended to improve safety at state prisons. Assembly Bill 1140 would require the California ...

The Department of Homeland Security is working with several agencies to increase bed space as they ask Congress for more ...

I don’t know if they have room to bring more desks in, but they’re going to have to do something,” one worker said.

High-security prisons across California have tightly restricted movement, calls and visits while officials probe a surge in violence this year.

California corrections officials say high-security prisons across the state are tightly restricting movement, calls and ...

Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, a book that calls into question nearly everything we know ...

Eventually social furloughs, available to only well-behaved inmates in minimum security, fell out of favor “because our directors all got very nervous because of the Willie Horton situation,” says ...

A California man convicted of operating four ... sex abuse received a sentence of 24 years and four months in federal prison on Thursday, authorities said. Louis Donald Mendonsa, 62, of Sacramento ...

The federal corrections officer was accused of having sex with, providing contraband to an inmate at the federal prison in Milan, Mich. The plea agreement indicates the corrections officer brought ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Attorneys for Lyle and Erik Menendez said Wednesday that California Gov ... resentencing will take into ...

Kelly, a former corrections officer who has a loved one currently working as a CO, spoke to News10NBC Chief Investigative Reporter Berkeley Brean about the conditions prison guards are facing.

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