The dealer who sold Jax Markley a fatal fentanyl pill will serve six years — a conviction made possible by a new effort to ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is placing Level IV high-security sections within its ...

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

The day before state authorities announced plans to restrict inmate movement and revoke visits and other privileges, three ...

A Connecticut correction officer was stabbed in the neck last summer, and deploying a caustic pepper spray on recalcitrant ...

The cause of death for notorious cult leader Charles Manson was acute cardiac arrest, with colon cancer as a factor. That's ...

One woman was tutoring other former inmates in a post-prison program, helping them get better grades when a staff member ...

Correction officers spend unstructured time with the incarcerated in the new model, hoping to stem problems before they start.

The department claims there have been strides in quality of care, staffing levels and funds infused into prison health care ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has spoken out against allowing transgender women and girls to compete in female sports. It's a ...

Lawyers for Louisiana and death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. have agreed to unseal the state's nitrogen gas execution ...

A historian answers Bolts readers’ questions on the deep roots of forced labor in U.S. prisons, how it operates today, and ...