A lawsuit filed this week alleges that the only full-time gynecologist at the California Institution for Women in Chino ...

In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would ...

Women at the California Institution for Women reported sexually abusive and “sadistic” behavior during gynecology exams ...

In a warehouse-style room at the Central California Women's Facility outside Chowchilla, Jesse Vasquez stood before a group of very attentive women in prison-issue denims. They were prospective ...

A California man prosecutors called a serial child molester has been handed a "monumental" sentence, the district attorney's ...

Former NFL star Dana Stubblefield was released from prison more than four years after being convicted of rape. The conviction ...

"The things that he did to us will forever haunt us and traumatize us," said a woman identified only as Jane Doe #5.

President Donald Trump’s administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown.

A man convicted of burglary in Sacramento County was declared dead Wednesday in his prison cell he shared with another inmate ...

Alejandro Martinez, 41, allegedly set one of the fires that destroyed large swaths of California in recent weeks, and faces ...

The Conservation (Fire) Camp Program, jointly run by California's corrections and fire departments, trains inmates to fight wildfires and respond to other emergencies. Inmate firefighters earn ...

The family of a twice-convicted child molester believes the California law that has now freed him from prison should not exist in the first place.