San Francisco’s former district attorney is leading a class action lawsuit requiring the state to follow through on a 1973 ...

Two inmates were attacked with an inmate-manufactured weapon, leaving one dead, in Kern Valley State Prison in Delano on Thursday, according to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Jacob ...

California's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation was accused of withholding release funds and reprimanded by the ...

Christina Cardenas, wife of a California inmate, won a $5.6 million settlement five years after a strip search that she said ...

CDCR will pay $3.6 million and the rest will be paid by two correctional officers, a doctor and the Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley hospital.

A California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation prison guard in Northern California was stabbed multiple times, including in his head, after an inmate attacked him Saturday while being ...

A class action lawsuit filed against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) alleges that “millions” of newly freed Californians have been unlawfully denied ...

An inmate died around 4 p.m. Saturday in Wasco State Prison from a suspected seizure and his death is being investigated as a homicide, according to the California Department of Corrections and ...

The two plaintiffs representing the class are Colin Scholl, who spent 14 years at a CDCR prison and was provided $70 upon release after $130 deducted in clothing ... the typical inmate has ...