Even more alarming is the real string of deadly fires that terrorized California four decades ago and inspired the twisty ...

Gary Brasuell, who was convicted of first-degree murder with use of a deadly weapon in 1997, has been denied parole for the ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation had restricted inmate movements and suspended privileges at 21 ...

I bathe in and drink the sometimes cloudy, often foul tasting water every day. I can attest to the black mold that forms on ...

Two inmates have been killed and a correctional officer attacked since the beginning of June, say CDCR officials ...

Officials at CDCR also continue to investigate the strangulation deaths of two women killed months apart while visiting their incarcerated partners at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione and are ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Two inmates at the Utah State Correctional Facility have been charged with aggravated assault after allegedly stabbing who they say was a rival gang member.The victim was hospitalized ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A naturalized U.S. citizen who pleaded guilty to receiving military training from the Islamic State group was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison. Lirim Sylejmani, 49, ...

A former state Department of Corrections officer pleaded guilty Friday to attempting to cover up the murder in an upstate prison of a Harlem man who died from a beating by other officers.. Joshua ...

IONE — A convicted killer from Alameda County — currently serving a term at Mule Creek State Prison for forcible rape of a mentally disabled woman — is under investigation in a suspected ...