A former California correctional lieutenant, Matthew L. Madsen, was arrested on federal charges alleging he smuggled ...

A 36-year-old man was stabbed nearly 180 times at a California state prison and someone inside captured video of the gruesome ...

The family of a Merced inmate fatally stabbed nearly 180 times at a state prison is suing the California Department of ...

Joseph Mendoza of Merced was stabbed 180 times in Salinas Valley prison in April 2025. A viral video of it prompted his ...

A California prison dive program trains inmates as commercial divers, giving them skills and second chances after release.

Incarcerated men use virtual reality headsets inside Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, Calif., Dec. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Haven Daley) CHOWCHILLA, Calif. — Jacob Smith has been in prison for two ...

A federal jury awarded more than $27 million in damages to an Adelanto man who now uses a wheelchair after being shot multiple times by a San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy in 2021.

An incarcerated person's constitutional right to a safe and healthy environment in a single occupancy cell cannot be withheld ...

VACAVILLE, Calif.(AP) — Kamiali Abdulsalam, Kami for short, has already been in the kitchen for several hours baking a batch of 100 sugar cookies when he pulls out chilled dough for another round — ...

Anyone who has followed the devastating violence in California’s prisons knows that gang rivalries trigger a lot of the bloodshed. So it stood to reason that if the authorities could get members to ...

A California man has been sentenced for his role in an identity theft and bank fraud ring that spanned multiple states, ...