California

Earlier this year, a state auditor's report was highly critical of the department and offered several recommendations

Gov. approved measures to seal criminal records and free dying inmates but denied bids to restrict solitary confinement and boost inmates' wages

The state outlined a timetable in a memo Tues. for closing the California Correctional Center, which employed about 700 people and held about 2,300 prisoners as of June

Some jails have also increased the availability of Narcan to reverse opioid overdoses

Providing access to web-based services can give parolees more freedom, and increase the effectiveness of their supervision and rehabilitation

Correctional officer Harry Bestolarides is a soft-spoken visiting officer but after work, he is the lead singer of the alternative-metal band Sedit

The L.A. County Sheriff’s Department is barred from holding a person in the jail system’s inmate reception center for more than 24 hours

Inmates will soon be required to wear an electronic wristband that tracks their movements within jail systems

The book spotlights Jarvis Masters' legal battle to overturn his death sentence in the murder of a corrections officer

In an online post, the "good verbal" writers defended their memes as dark humor by people with difficult, little-appreciated jobs

Officials are seeking a 10-year prison sentence for James Theodore Highhouse

The proposal would restrict the use of confinement to no more than 15 consecutive days and a total of 45 days in a six-month span

Police have not said why Reginald Smith, who retired from the CDCR in 2002, shot at police and refused to surrender

The board of supervisors wants to speed the process of filling more than 350 vacancies for deputies, nurses and mental health clinicians