Prison staff reportedly used physical force to pin Christopher Leong, 35, to the ground after he charged and hit them — then he stopped breathing.

By Ana Kasparian, RealClearInvestigationsMay 1, 2025 Smiley Martin should have been behind bars. A career criminal with a ...

WIN SOME, LOSE SOME — Republican state Sen. Shannon Grove fell short of an ambitious legislative double-play yesterday as her ...

The death of an L.A. County inmate marks the 13th suspected homicide in state prisons this year as violence surges despite a ...

Then-Assemblymember Brian Jones said state-built prisons in other nations would "operate at a lot lower expense than being ...

Medical parole is reserved for the sliver of California’s 90,000 prisoners who have a “significant and permanent condition” ...

More and more state workers are able to retire with massive payouts for unused vacation and other leave, with a new record ...

Some of this is political inside baseball, with nothing more at stake than squabbles between individual legislators. But ...

After voters approved Proposition 36 last year, some Republican lawmakers are seeing greater support for tougher parole rules.

A culture of abuse at California women’s prisons The U.S. Department of Justice announced ... Sept. 12, 2023, at the state Capitol in Sacramento. Xavier Mascareñas [email protected] At the time, ...

A new budget proposal California lawmakers are considering ... they want to see the inspector general’s office — the state’s prison watchdog — monitor a greater portion of the sexual ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A new budget proposal California lawmakers are considering would add 22 positions to the Office of the Inspector General to better oversee inmate complaints and the ...