Michael Lerma, 68, was convicted of racketeering and murder in a trial that showed how he called the shots for gangs in his ...

Incarcerated students inside Sheridan Correctional Center share their thoughts about higher education, rehabilitation and ...

A Step Toward Safety and Security** In an unprecedented move reflecting a growing concern for the safety of women, a California lawmaker has introduced legislation aimed at keeping biological males ...

At 18, Jack Morris was convicted of murdering a man in South Los Angeles and sent to prison for life. It was 1979, and America was entering the era of mass incarceration, with tough sentencing laws ...

A Republican lawmaker is pushing a new bill that would seclude female transgender prisoners from cisgender women prisoners in ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is visiting the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang have b ...

Robert Downey Jr. had it all and lost it to addiction. Drugs, prison, and a Hollywood blacklist later, here is how he rewrote ...

No other such surgeries for people in federal custody are publicly documented, although some people in state prisons have also received gender-affirming surgery, including at least five in Illinois ...

Two inmates from Los Angeles County are suspected in the fatal attack of another prisoner at Wasco State Prison in Kern County, officials announced Monday. According to the California Department ...

Convicted killer Scott Peterson was attacked by a fellow inmate at the California prison where he is incarcerated for killing his wife and unborn son. "On March 9, 2025, incarcerated person Charles R.

the U.S. Department of Justice launched an investigation into CCWF and another women’s prison, California Institution for Women, to determine if CDCR has sufficiently protected female inmates ...

Correctional staff at the Central California ... inmates filed sexual abuse claims, a recent federal lawsuit alleges. Thirteen women who are currently serving sentences in the Chowchilla prison ...