The former correctional officer hid weapons and drugs including cocaine and methamphetamine, federal prosecutors say.

Advocates are calling on Governor Gavin Newsom to permanently close the state's deactivated prisons before they can be ...

The “modified program” in place imposes severe restrictions on inmates’ movements and cuts off access to visits, phone calls ...

Two inmates have been killed and a correctional officer attacked since the beginning of June, say CDCR officials ...

Avelino Ramirez, a 52-year-old Vallejo resident, confessed to planting drugs, weapons, and other illicit items in San Quentin ...

Kern Valley State Prison violence in California leaves death row inmate Julian Mendez dead in attack involving multiple ...

Matt Rocha was once a rising star in the Nuestra Familia prison gang, but now he’s someone the gang would likely murder at ...

Several prisons across the state, including Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility near Otay Mesa, have been placed under a ...

Former California correctional officer Avelino Ramirez pleaded guilty to wire fraud for planting contraband in prison to ...

California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws, ...

SAN FRANCISCO – A former state correctional officer pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of wire fraud in connection with a ...