One lawmaker is pushing for more transparency after the state auditor found California prisons were relying on contract workers to fill vacancies.

In a significant win for formerly incarcerated Californians, an Alameda County Superior Court judge has cleared the way for a ...

CALIFORNIA POLITICS. 360 I'M ASHLEY ZAVALA FRUSTRATION GROWING WITH HOW THE STATE RELEASES CRIMINALS FROM PRISON AND AN APPARENT LACK OF SUPERVISION WHILE THEY'RE ON PAROLE. THIS WEEK, STATE ...

A California child molester once described by a judge as "the monster parents fear the most" has been cleared for release under the state’s elderly parole program, a decision local law enforcement ...

ACTION NEWS 8 REPORTER JAZMON DEJARNETTE HAS MORE...### THE FAMILY OF 36-YEAR-OLD JOSEPH MENDOZA IS FILING A LAWSUIT AGAINST THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND SALINAS VALLEY STATE PRISON ...

CDCR arrested two men who attended a Stockton party where a mass shooting occurred. The men were arrested on suspicion of violating parole. Authorities said the arrested parolees are not suspects in ...

An inmate who escaped from a Santa Clarita fire crew camp for incarcerated convicts remained on the run Thursday. Alejandro A. Tobarfuentes, who was convicted of burglarizing a home and then crashing ...

Authorities Tuesday were searching for an inmate who escaped from a Santa Clarita prison camp for inmates used on fire crews and other work. Alejandro A. Tobarfuentes was discovered missing at about ...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are looking for an inmate who escaped from the Francisquito Conservation Camp in Los Angeles County on Sunday night. Staff ...

A jury has awarded nearly $17 million to a San Diego woman who alleged in a lawsuit that while working as a clinical psychologist at a California state prison she was retaliated and discriminated ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Nearly two dozen incarcerated women received ...

A Paso Robles man and former California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officer who pleaded no contest to charges of driving drunk and causing a crash that severely injured two people ...