The family of a Merced inmate fatally stabbed nearly 180 times at a state prison is suing the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for “deliberate indifference” after horrifying ...

A federal judge also required an external monitor be appointed to ensure compliance, including through review of medical ...

Has California housing become a buyer’s market with sellers losing control of pricing? My trusty spreadsheet reviewed a relatively new homebuying metric from Redfin that attempts to quantify the ...

Two years after a state law went into effect allowing churches and other faith-based institutions, along with independent institutions of higher education, to build affordable housing units on their ...

The 2026–27 California Budget was released earlier this month, outlining a significant overhaul of California's correctional system, driven by decreasing prison populations, notable cost savings from ...

A twice-deported Mexican national who was let off easy for killing two California teenagers in a drunken crash — sparking widespread outrage — has been sentenced to prison for being in the country ...

Syrian government forces took control Friday of a prison housing members of the Islamic State group in the north of the country, after hundreds of Kurdish fighters evacuated from the area as part of a ...

When I was younger, I couldn’t imagine a future for myself beyond going to prison or dying young. But today, I am a college graduate and a senior policy advocate for the Vera Institute of Justice’s ...

Officials are investigating the death of 41-year-old Brion E. Spidle following a fight over the weekend at the Pleasant Valley State Prison. Two other inmates, Jorge Ortega and Victor Wence, were ...

Two inmates described as “suspected assailants” are being investigated in connection with a fatal attack at a facility in Central California, officials say. The California Department of Corrections ...