CDCR

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

The decision likely ends 15-year battle between the California Correctional Peace Officers Association and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

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

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