Over the past few decades, California has been solving fewer and fewer crimes. As of 2022, only 13.2% of serious crimes like ...

California lawmakers want to expand organized sports at state prisons, but an incarcerated journalist fears it will benefit the corrections department more than inmates.

This piece was published in collaboration with the Investigative Reporting Lab at Yale. In leaked videos from California's largest women's prison, guards stand in a line facing dozens of incarcerated ...

A California prison guard smuggled 20 kilograms of cocaine from Mexico to a stash house in Rowland Heights, prosecutors ...

California lawmakers who want to cut down on the billions the state spends on incarceration face an uphill battle to reduce prison expenses, which have remained persistently high despite efforts to ...

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Tory Lanez has filed a $100 million suit against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation due to the stabbing of a state prison guard last year, according to TMZ. According to the ...

A California prison guard allegedly helped a drug trafficker smuggle 20 kilograms from Mexico to a Rowland Heights stash house, L.A. County prosecutors said Friday. (Eric Risberg / Associated Press) A ...