Nearly 1,200 employees work at the California Rehabilitation Center, which CDCR said Monday would be closed in 2026.

Fewer inmates, cost savings are driving the move. Some city leaders have coveted the grounds of the old Lake Norconian Club ...

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Responding to projections of lower prison populations in future years and providing for needed cost savings, today, the ...

Kern Valley corrections officers resorted to blast grenades to quash the melee before finding Julian Mendez, 46, dead. Inmate Mario Renteria, 36, is suspected in Mendez’s death, said CDCR officials.