California’s parole board is using unreliable drug test results in decisions about releasing incarcerated people despite flaws that were exposed in a rash of false positives two years ago, more than a ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing blowback after unveiling a new $239 million rehabilitation center at the infamous San ...

Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday unveiled a new transformation at the infamous San Quentin prison in the San Francisco Bay ...

If you’re serving hard time inside a California prison, you’ll often find yourself stuck in a cramped cell with a stranger. You hang a bedsheet to manufacture the semblance of privacy between bed and ...

Anyone entering a California prison — including visitors, staff and attorneys — will be subject to a canine search under a new policy rolling out today across the state. CalMatters obtained a ...

A 36-year-old man was stabbed nearly 180 times at a California state prison and someone inside captured video of the gruesome ...

An incarcerated person's constitutional right to a safe and healthy environment in a single occupancy cell cannot be withheld on the condition that she or he be good.

In 2023, amid record-breaking rain and snow, two prisons in the southern San Joaquin Valley faced a serious risk of flooding. But neither prison, California State Prison, Corcoran or the Substance ...

A former California correctional lieutenant, Matthew L. Madsen, was arrested on federal charges alleging he smuggled ...

Anyone who has followed the devastating violence in California’s prisons knows that gang rivalries trigger a lot of the bloodshed. So it stood to reason that if the authorities could get members to ...

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 ...