Assemblymember Gregg Hart said California needs to weigh the benefits of rehabilitation with the stubbornly high cost of incarceration.

A former California parole agent is raising alarms about what he claims is dangerously lax oversight of parolees under the state’s corrections system — warning the lack of monitoring could put the ...

A former parole agent who worked for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says parolees in the state ...

Wellpath, the nation's leading provider of compassionate medical, dental and behavioral healthcare to incarcerated patients, ...

Jon Blaylock, who was already serving a life sentence for a 2023 in-prison murder of a peace officer, has since been moved to ...

An attempted homicide is being investigated at the California State Prison in Sacramento after an inmate, who is already serving time for killing a peace officer, allegedly stabbed a ...

California's elderly parole program faces scrutiny after the Board of Parole Hearings granted parole to child molester David Allen Funston.

ACTION NEWS 8 REPORTER JAZMON DEJARNETTE HAS MORE...### THE FAMILY OF 36-YEAR-OLD JOSEPH MENDOZA IS FILING A LAWSUIT AGAINST THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND SALINAS VALLEY STATE PRISON ...

THOSE KILLED. AND THEN WE HAVE THIS TONIGHT. WE ARE NOW HEARING FROM A MAN WHO ATTENDED THAT PARTY. HE SAYS HE SAW EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED WHEN THE SHOOTING WENT DOWN. HE, ALONG WITH ANOTHER MAN, ...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are looking for an inmate who escaped from the Francisquito Conservation Camp in Los Angeles County on Sunday night. Staff ...

A jury has awarded nearly $17 million to a San Diego woman who alleged in a lawsuit that while working as a clinical psychologist at a California state prison she was retaliated and discriminated ...