Assemblymember Gregg Hart said California needs to weigh the benefits of rehabilitation with the stubbornly high cost of ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — An inmate serving a life term for murder has been charged with another homicide, this one in connection with the stabbing death of another inmate at Kern Valley State ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — An inmate accused of strangling his cellmate at North Kern State Prison has been charged with ...

Ignacio Guzman, a 28-year-old convict from Kings County, is being investigated for the murder of 72-year-old Earl D. Williams ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is investigating the death of a 72-year-old inmate as a homicide ...

A Venezuelan man who was deported from the U.S. and detained at CECOT prison in El Salvador has become the first known ...

A 33-year-old prisoner died one day after a 37-year-old inmate at the same prison was attacked and killed, officials said.

A Lorain County corrections officer is facing six misdemeanor charges after she allegedly performed an illegal cavity search ...

Edgar Enriquez, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution, Mendota, escaped from the satellite camp adjacent to the ...

Luzerne County prison sergeant Stanley Fiedorczyk will serve as the county’s acting Correctional Services Division head now that the oversight position has been vacated by James Wilbur’s ...

A search is underway after a federal inmate was discovered missing Sunday night from a minimum-security satellite camp ...