A Republican lawmaker is pushing a new bill that would seclude female transgender prisoners from cisgender women prisoners in California correctional facilities. State Sen. Shannon Grove ...

The sign at Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla is shown in a file photo. TOMAS OVALLE Fresno Bee file photo Earlier this year, former corrections officer Gregory Rodriguez was ...

California corrections officials say high-security prisons across the state are tightly restricting movement, calls and visits while they probe a surge in violence this year. High-security prisons ...

Miles was walking on a recreation path at Mule Creek State Prison when he attacked incarcerated person Scott Peterson," Todd Javernick, a spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections ...

The restrictions started Saturday and affect the top-security sections of nearly a dozen lockups including the California Correctional ... In January, for example, Mario Campbell, 36, was attacked ...

California Prisons Restrict Movement, Calls and Visits as Violence Surges High-security prisons across California have tightly restricted movement, calls and visits while officials probe a surge ...

FOLSOM – The California State Prison, Sacramento is among facilities that are being placed on modified movement after a surge in violence, correctional officers said. Effective Saturday ...

In a statement dated March 8, officials from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation cited a “surge” in violence directed at both inmates and staff as the reason for the ...

California corrections officials called Peters “highly qualified” in a statement, while Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office did not immediately comment. Mueller gave the parties until March 28 to show cause ...