More than 250 Texas prisoners are on a waitlist to join the only class in the state that helps prepare them for life after they are released ...

Jenkins said the tablets are part of providing "good rehabilitative services" to inmates, which is crucial for safety not just inside the prison, but outside as well.The Department of Correction ...

San Quentin State Prison is the only death row for male inmates in the state. Gov.. Gavin Newsom imposed a moratorium on the death penalty in 2019. Randy Pench Sacramento Bee file California has a ...

A new soon-to-open jail in Orange County will offer prisoners more positive opportunities and visitors a new way of ...

Inmates in California jails and prisons can be compelled to work, be punished with solitary confinement, or lose privileges such as the ability to make phone calls. The United States Supreme Court ...

On Nov. 12, investigators reviewed prison phone calls made the evening of the attack by the victim. In one call, the inmate stated the fight was over someone stealing his tablet stating “Bucci ...

Proposition 6, the ballot measure that would have amended the California Constitution to prohibit involuntary servitude in prison, failed. That’s troubling. Do voters really believe forced ...

That way, officials said, they don’t have to lock down other parts of the facility as often, and it also gives the inmates more out-of-cell time. And while it is still a prison, Orange County ...

Danish architecture studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen and American studio DLR Group have been selected to redesign California's San Quentin State Prison into a rehabilitation centre that will utilise ...

A program to compensate survivors of state-sponsored forced or involuntary sterilizations will soon stop accepting applications.