More than 1,100 inmates in the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation — a group that has historically made up 30% of the California wildfire force — helped battle the Palisades and Eaton ...

A proposal took an early step in the California Assembly Public Safety Committee that would require incarcerated firefighters ...

The Sacramento County Main Jail was on lockdown after an inmate died following a fight inside of his cell, the sheriff's office told KCRA 3.

LOS ANGELES — Authorities Sunday were searching for an incarcerated man who walked away from a Male Community Reentry Program ...

Scott Peterson, convicted of murdering his pregnant wife and unborn son, was injured Sunday at a state prison during an ...

Infamous wife-killer Scott Peterson got beat up by a fellow inmate during a prison yard pickleball match on Sunday, according ...

Inmate firefighters housed in California’s county jails and state prisons would earn an hourly wage of up to $19 under legislation being considered by state lawmakers. Assembly Bill 247 would ...

Tyler Yates is accused of killing Jake Kennedy after the two were already accused of killing another man last month ...

Daniel Joseph Everts pleaded no contest to forcing an inmate to engage in sex acts at the department's Lancaster station.

At about 2:53 p.m., officials were alerted that incarcerated person Herber Ramosrauda (pictured) walked away from an MCRP ...