Immigrants in California's newest ICE detention center allege they're experiencing inhumane conditions and that they're not ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California over the past dozen years enacted a series of criminal justice laws that were meant to give more people an ...

States are adopting surveillance-oriented “paperless” policies that deny incarcerated people access to physical letters.

OAKLAND, Calif. – A federal jury has deadlocked for the second time in a trial of a former correctional officer charged with sexually abusing four inmates at a now-closed federal women’s prison in ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. As climate change exacerbates the risks of extreme heat across California, the state’s prison officials plan to embark ...

A California jury found that Beth Fischgrund was wrongfully terminated and defamed after she reported an inmate’s violent ...

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California over the past dozen years enacted a series of criminal justice laws that were meant to give more people an opportunity to be resentenced and thin out the state's severely overcrowded ...