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One inmate was taken to a medical facility and 14 improvised weapons were found after a riot with about 70 inmates happened at a Tehachapi prison.The California ...

FOLSOM – Five inmates from the California State Prison, Sacramento were injured and taken to the hospital on Wednesday morning after officials said a riot involving about 40 inmates broke out in the ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - More than half the people who were released from California prisons did not re-offend, according to a new report conducted by the California Department of Corrections and ...

Officials at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano are investigating the Wednesday death of an inmate as a homicide. Prisoners William A. Nesler III and Edward R. Holden III allegedly attacked inmate ...

More than a dozen state prison facilities — including four in Kern County — have been placed under a higher-than-normal level of restrictions following high rates of inmate violence and contraband.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A man who walked away from a conservation ...

An inmate in a California state prison was allegedly killed by two other inmates on Friday evening, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced. Per a CDCR media release, the ...