The following information is from Facebook posts by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. According to a public information officer with CDCR, the event begins at 10 a.m.

June 3, 2025 – LANCASTER – California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials are investigating an attack on two peace officers at California State Prison, Los Angeles County (LAC) as ...

Surveillance footage newly obtained by KQED sheds light on a mass use-of-force incident at the Central California Women’s Facility in 2024. The incident resulted in discipline for more than 40 staff ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is searching for a man who walked away from a Male Community Reentry Program early Thursday morning in Kern ...

Speaker pro Tempore Josh Lowenthal, D-Long Beach, looks to special guests in the gallery on May 8, 2025. NATHANIEL LEVINE nlevine@sacbee.com A California lawmaker wants more transparency around how ...

In a significant win for formerly incarcerated Californians, an Alameda County Superior Court judge has cleared the way for a major class action lawsuit against the California Department of ...

Two men who attended a party Saturday in Stockton, where a mass shooting killed four people and wounded 13 others, were arrested on suspicion of violating parole. It's unclear what the parolees ...

ALAMEDA, Calif. — An Alameda County Superior Court judge has allowed a legal challenge to proceed against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) over its decades-long ...

April 3, 2026 – FOLSOM, CA – Armando Macias, who was serving a condemned sentence, died on April 2, 2026, while incarcerated at California State Prison, Sacramento (SAC). He was 50 years old. At ...

A notorious Southern California killer who was condemned to death for his role in a 2002 murder-for-hire plot that claimed the life of a 44-year-old Orange County man has died in prison at age 50, the ...

For two years, I walked the lower yard track at San Quentin State Prison, watching construction crews tear down an old furniture factory to build a $239 million Scandinavian-styled learning center.

This article was co-published with Truthout. For two years, I walked the lower yard track at San Quentin State Prison, watching construction crews tear down an old furniture factory to build a $239 ...