El Salvador released 200 Venezuelans held in a notorious prison in exchange for Venezuela freeing 10 American nationals and ...

Two Trump administration officials visited the historic Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on Thursday, just two months after ...

Inmates at Salinas Valley State Prison have declared a hunger strike, effective Friday, to protest what they claim are unlawful practices by the California Department of Corrections and ...

California State Prison, Sacramento, once known as New Folsom, was opened in 1986 and is adjacent to Folsom State Prison, California’s second-oldest correctional facility.

California prison officials are investigating the death of an incarcerated person at Mule Creek State Prison as a homicide. Longeno Jones, 51, was found unresponsive in his cell on May 21; his ...

The governor is calling for closure of an unspecified prison as a cost-saving measure. The state’s inmate population is down 45 percent from its peak in 2006.

California’s falling incarcerated population has allowed Gov. Gavin Newsom to close four state prisons. Now he’s calling for a fifth.

A prosecutor in California blasted the state's $239 million taxpayer-funded project to build a prison rehabilitation center in the Bay Area, arguing that it's another example of politicians ...

A slew of recent violence in state prisons is bringing new rules to inmates at Salinas Valley State Prison, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

The California State Prison, Sacramento is among facilities that are being placed on modified movement after a surge in violence, correctional officers said.