The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to hear the case of a Sylmar-area man who was convicted of sexually assaulting ...

EL DORADO COUNTY, Calif. — An inmate was apprehended early Saturday, just hours after walking away from a rehabilitation camp in El Dorado County, according to the California Department of Corrections ...

Two women were killed during conjugal visits with their incarcerated partners inside Mule Creek State Prison months apart last year, sparking questions about safety, rehabilitation, and justice.

Fifteen incarcerated women are set to graduate on Friday with a certificate in hair-braiding as part of a first-of-its kind ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed closing another prison in his revised budget proposal. Newsom didn’t specify which prison could be ...

California’s falling incarcerated population has allowed Gov. Gavin Newsom to close four state prisons. Now he’s calling for a fifth.

California ministry sponsors compromise bill, arguing that “one community’s safety cannot come at the cost of another’s.” In 2008, while Amie Ichikawa was serving her sentence at the ...

Women make up less than 5% of California’s prison population, but that small portion faces “double punishment,” said Anne Irwin, the director of prison reform group Smart Justice California ...

Tucked away in the Central Valley, Central California Women's Facility sits off Highway 99 between Fresno and Merced. Farmland surrounds much of the prison, and visitors are rare. The 640-acre ...

Thirteen women who are currently serving sentences in the Chowchilla prison filed the complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California earlier this month, asserting that ...