Hundreds of California state prisoners worked to put out this year's deadly Los Angeles wildfires, inspiring new laws that will improve their pay and open other opportunities.

The bill increases the wages of prisoners who work fighting California wildfires, but the pay is still far below the state ...

Content warning: This story discusses suicide. Call the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline if you or a loved one needs help. The deputy warden was at home on his acreage 9 miles south of the Tecumseh ...

Sam Hardman of Tehachapi, Calif., holding a sign against the California City Detention Facility housing migrants waits in line to speak out during public comment at the city council meeting on Sept.

Men sleep in locked cells every night on bunk beds with thin cotton blankets. They walk in straight lines with hands behind their back to the razor wire-enclosed "yard." Guards carrying handcuffs pat ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. California’s largest ICE detention center, a former prison in the Mojave Desert, faces complaints of poor ...

CALIFORNIA OVER THE PAST DOZEN YEARS enacted a series of criminal justice laws that were meant to give more people an opportunity to be resentenced and ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A federal jury has deadlocked for the second time in a trial of a former correctional officer charged with sexually abusing four inmates at a now-closed federal women’s prison ...