CDCR

“These allegations aren’t a reflection on all of those correctional officers who work hard in keeping our citizens safe,” the district attorney said

"The skills our students learn pave the way for successful reentry, helping them prepare for careers or continuing their education," Superintendent Shannon Swain said

During the first year when the proposition was in effect, the proportion of people who reentered their communities successfully increased to 55.4%

Folsom State Prison inmates purchased 3,822 boxes of Girl Scout cookies

Guillermo Viera Rosa will join the Los Angeles Probation Department during a time of turmoil

The facility will be renamed the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center and inmates serving sentences will be moved elsewhere in the state's penitentiary system

They had gotten lessons in neurobiology and pharmacology, ethics and the law, family dynamics and relapse prevention

The department has expanded the use of surveillance and body-worn cameras "across prisons in the state" and has increased staff training

"The avenues for drugs entering prisons during the first year of the pandemic ... remained staff, contractors, official visitors and mail," an official said

Domestic and international calls from wall phones and tablets are now free for "maintaining positive bonds between incarcerated people and their loved ones"

CDCR COs and staff bring Christmas spirit to children with special needs

The experiments in the 60s and 70s involved administering doses of pesticides and herbicides to the incarcerated men

Newly graduated CO, Joshua Kubel, continues a family tradition of service started by his grandfather

CDCR prisons held about 94,000 inmates last week, down from about 120,000 in 2019 and about 160,000 in 2011

The two inmates were attempting to kill another prisoner with makeshift weapons