A proposed California bill could increase pay for inmate firefighters housed in county jails and state prisons. Assembly Bill 247, if approved, would require jail inmates assigned to work active ...

California prison inmate Scott Peterson was injured at Mule Creek State Prison on Sunday, prison officials said. The convicted murderer was involved in an ...

California corrections officials say high-security prisons across the state are tightly restricting movement, calls and ...

The district attorney of Los Angeles County says he does not support the resentencing of Lyle and Erik Menendez. District ...

Officials from the Department of Corrections are investigating the death of a man who was incarcerated at California State Prison, Los Angeles County in Lancaster as a homicide.

California is turning to apprenticeship to combat its wildfire crisis. With thousands of firefighter apprentices trained ...

April 12, 1991. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian) This combination of two booking photos provided by the California Department of Corrections shows Erik Menendez, left, and Lyle Menendez. (California Dept.

New details reveal the that the woman accused of murdering her fire captain wife in Southern California ... according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Seventeen Republican attorneys general, led by Texas' Ken Paxton, filed a lawsuit against the department in September over section 504 of the Rehabilitation ... by the Southern Poverty Law Center ...

24 (UPI) --A toxic algae bloom is being blamed for sickening several California sea lions in Malibu, Calif., according to a nonprofit wildlife rehabilitation ... blooms in Southern California's ...