A California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation prison guard in Northern California ... a peace officer in the face at the Pelican Bay State Prison, CDCR officials said in a news release.

Jason Brannigan, 47, swung an “improvised weapon” and stabbed Lamar Scott multiple times about 6:05 p.m., according to the ...

A former corrections officer received a sentence of more than two years in federal prison Monday for accepting bribes from ...

Ronald D. Yandell, 62, is currently serving a life sentence at California State Prison, Sacramento after a 2004 murder conviction. FOLSOM, Calif. - An inmate at a California state prison is ...

Proposition 36, passed overwhelmingly by voters in November, will likely increase county jail populations by stiffening ...

An inmate’s attack on a corrections officer Thursday at a Northern California ... his cell at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione about 6:21 p.m. when he turned on the guard. Guards restrained ...

FOLSOM, Calif. - An inmate at a California state prison is accused of trying to kill two prison guards as he was being escorted back to his cell, prison officials said. The incident happened last ...

One guard responded with three doses of pepper ... The Aryan Brotherhood formed in the 1960s in California state prisons and eventually spread throughout the country, including federal lockups.

Stephen Joseph Crittenden, 44, of Suisun City was sentenced to two years and one month in prison by U.S. District Judge Troy N. Nunley, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Crittenden worked ...

Ronald D. Yandell, 62, was being escorted to his cell inside California State Prison Sacramento when he allegedly pulled out an improvised weapon on November 22. CDCR officials said Yandell ...

The Bureau of Prisons said in a memo that it was grappling with “a very difficult budget situation along with significant ...