California's essential health care facilities are wasting money on expensive contract labor amid chronic staffing shortages, ...

Joseph Mendoza’s death at Salinas Valley State Prison was posted on social media. Lawyers say CDCR staff leaked it.

Authorities are investigating the recent death of an inmate at the California State Prison in Sacramento, as a homicide. On the evening of July 18, prison staff found 23-year-old Anthony Francis Jr.

A high-ranking "commissioner" of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang was sentenced in federal court in Sacramento to life in prison on Tuesday for racketeering and conspiracy to commit murder in a case ...

California state prison officials said an inmate is accused of trying to kill a psychiatrist during a one-on-one meeting on Friday. Jose L. Ramirez, 35, was identified as the inmate. The attack ...

FOLSOM, Calif. (AP) — Two California prison officers were hospitalized after an alleged attack by an incarcerated man, and authorities are investigating it as an attempted homicide, officials said ...

Officials say a California prison guard fatally shot an inmate who was attacking another convict. The state corrections department says the slain inmate was one of two attacking a third inmate ...