Supreme Court standards prohibit officer use of force only if it is "malicious and sadistic." Courts rarely rule that extreme ...

Federal grand jury indicts correctional officer and inmate for conspiring to violate inmate's rights at California State ...

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.

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

A former California prison guard is accused of keeping a stash of illegal items to plant and "find" to make himself look good ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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