In rejecting Proposition 6, voters kept a constitutional provision outlawing slavery except "to punish crime." Gov. Gavin ...

California's Proposition 6 and Nevada's Question 4 sounded like similar prison reforms. But key differences may explain the ...

A coalition of formerly and currently incarcerated women are fighting to end women’s incarceration in California altogether.

I know how a relocation can exacerbate violence,” writes Johanna Mills. “Even when the place you’re leaving is so toxic that you can’t stay there.” ...

Danish architecture studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen and American studio DLR Group have been selected to redesign California's ...

If executions resume, the state could see a “conveyor belt” of killing that Californians might not be willing to stomach.

"All the people in prison that I know want to work. We just want to do it on our own terms," writes Steve Brooks.

Valentin Mendoza Jr., 44, will spend five years and 10 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute more ...

Proposition 6’s defeat blocked the effort to eliminate mandatory prison labor in California. Sanctions against inmates for ...

A California man convicted of stabbing to death a gay University of Pennsylvania student in an act of hate was sentenced ...

The County of Santa Cruz has received an $8 million grant for mental health and substance abuse care from the California Board of State and Community Corrections.

The U.S. Department of Justice filed charges in what could be the nation's first death-resulting criminal case involving a synthetic opioid that is possibly more dangerous than fentanyl.