California Republican lawmaker calls for seclusion of female transgender prisoners
A Republican lawmaker is pushing a new bill that would seclude female transgender prisoners from cisgender women prisoners in ...
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California prisons' mental health programs put into rare receivership
A federal judge in Sacramento has put control of California prisons' mental health programs into a rare receivership, ...
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A newspaper sets up shop in an unexpected place: California's largest women's prison
The 640-acre facility is the largest women’s prison in California, and holds more than 2,000 women, nonbinary and transgender ...
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Blueface shares update from Lancaster State Prison
Blueface, whose real name is Johnathan Porter, is curently serving a four-year prison sentence for violating probation ...
Family of retired California prison guard says he died after being injured then neglected for a week by rural Colorado jailers
An autopsy report found six of Michael Burch’s right ribs had broken and his right lung collapsed after an altercation with a ...
Conjugal visit deaths at prison near Stockton mark tragic turn for controversial practice
Two violent deaths at a state prison near Stockton have brought attention to conjugal visits, a practice many states have abandoned.
California signs $315M contract with company that recorded calls between inmates and attorneys
California has inked a nearly $190 million contract for prison communication tablets with a company that has sued the state multiple times in recent years and has been sued for recording prisoners' ...
California prison labor ban failed on the ballot. A new bill is bringing it back
Supporters of the bill say that forced labor meant missing out on important rehabilitation programs and educational ...