The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is searching for an inmate who escaped from a minimum-security ...

Two inmates in a California state prison are being investigated for the alleged murder of a third inmate in one of the facility’s yards on Sunday, officials with the California Department of ...

Federal officials are probing whether transgender inmate housing policies in California and Maine violate female inmates' ...

California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom is drawing heat after an old clip resurfaced showing her suggesting San ...

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether California and Maine violate female inmates’ rights by housing them with ...

A death at Calipatria State Prison (CAL) on November 10, 2025, is being investigated as a homicide after an incarcerated person was attacked in an exercise yard. Prison staff responded to Eric ...

Armando Macias was condemned to death in 2011 following his conviction for first-degree murder in a murder-for-hire plot.

The Trump administration said it had sent a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom informing him of a federal investigation into two state women's prisons to determine "if those prisons unconstitutionally ...

Inmate firefighters in California will receive higher pay and the state will make permanent firefighting camps that train and educate young offenders under two laws signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Inmate firefighters in California will receive higher pay and the state will make permanent firefighting camps that train and educate young offenders under two laws signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.