State jobs offer competitive benefits and access to the nation's largest public pension system.

A criminal justice reform advocate who thrived after completing a diversion program says lawmakers should back a bill that ...

Brion E. Spidle died after an alleged attack by two other inmates, Jorge Ortega and Victor Wence, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Anyone who has followed the devastating violence in California’s prisons knows that gang rivalries trigger a lot of the bloodshed. So it stood to reason that if the authorities could get members to ...

A proposed state law offers non-violent offenders the chance to change ‘their lives, support their families and pay restitution to those they’ve harmed.’ ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A system designed to protect state inmates has led to increased violence involving so-called ‘dropout’ gangs of ...

A man serving life in prison for a deadly gang shooting in Southern California has died following an altercation with another inmate at a prison in Solano County, officials said.

Two inmates in a California state prison are being investigated for the alleged murder of a third inmate in one of the facility’s yards on Sunday, officials with the California Department of ...

Jacob Smith has been in prison for two decades but he and other inmates are still taking regular trips to far-flung, exotic locales. No passport required, just a virtual reality headset. “I went to ...

Prison Virtual Reality Incarcerated men use virtual reality headsets inside Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, Calif., Dec. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Haven Daley ...