A man serving life in prison for a deadly gang shooting in Southern California has died following an altercation with another ...

California prison officials are investigating the fatal stabbing of inmate Mario Ramos at Calipatria State Prison following a ...

Thousands of prisoners in California go before the Board of Parole Hearings each year in hopes of a chance at freedom.

The leader of a Southern California street gang was sentenced to nine years in prison for ordering the kidnapping of a woman ...

A system designed to protect state inmates who wish to leave gangs has backfired, leading to increased violence fueled by ...

Two inmates in a California state prison are being investigated for the alleged murder of a third inmate in one of the ...

Prisoners are now taking regular trips to far-flung, exotic locales such as Thailand. No passport required, just a virtual ...

In California, the birthplace of much of the world’s technology innovation, virtual reality is being used in an unexpected ...

Data show the slide is real, not just anecdotal. CalMatters found that the share of parole hearings that ended in a grant ...

Correctional officers at the California Rehabilitation Center (CRC) in Norco have started writing Attorney General Rob Bonta to to keep the prison open, presenting it as an option to alleviate the ...

In 1975, Michel Foucault's resonate treatise Discipline and Punish conceptualized the "carceral archipelago," positing a pioneering theorization of how social ...

"During the retreat I heard a call from God to do my part," writes Daryl Grigsby. "I am not a chaplain or a religious sister.