SACRAMENTO — California prison administrators preparing for the threat of coronavirus within the state’s sprawling lockup system are basing those plans off their existing protocol for inmate ...

A budget deficit prompted state lawmakers to trim — but not eliminate — funding for a pilot program that will pay for air ...

California's prison population reduction plan has been fueling prison closures for the past two years. Skip to content. All Sections. ... California prisons housed 173,000 inmates in 2006. As of ...

Every state agency has felt California’s budget crunch, and on Monday, state prison officials announced a plan to largely reduce the budget for California’s crowded prisons.

California State Prison, Los Angeles County, August 2006. It currently holds 4,275 inmates; it is designed to hold 2,300. Photo by California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ...

PIX Now 6 a.m. 8/31/23 08:55. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ambitious and expensive plans for a dilapidated factory at San Quentin State Prison where inmates of one of the nation's most ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation on Tuesday, Dec. 6, announced it will close two prisons — one in Blythe and another in Kern County that is the state’s last privately run ...