“CDCR and the corrections budget in general has been a black hole, a money pit,” said Brian Kaneda, CURB’s deputy director.

A state prison inmate from Santa Maria has been killed in what officials have described as a homicide. At 6:21 a.m. Friday, Kern Valley State Prison staff ...

He was serving a 14-year prison sentence for a voluntary manslaughter conviction when the deadly attack occurred.

An inmate at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano died Friday after being assaulted by another, the Kern County coroner’s office reported Tuesday. An agency news release said Fernando ...