California State Prison in Sacramento County opened in 1986 and houses more than 2,200 medium, maximum and high-security inmates.

Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday ...

Over 1,800 incarcerated firefighters live year-round in minimum-security conservation camps, also known as “fire camps,” located across 25 counties in California, according to the California ...

Sentenced to a life term, Johnson was sent to Pelican Bay, the maximum-security prison in Northern California where all of the state’s alleged prison gang leaders were then being held.

A prison guard ... claims under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, alleging CDCR failed to protect a female guard from the assault despite knowing that security issues at the facility ...

During the tour, prison director Belarmino Garcia referred to the inmates as "psychopaths who will be difficult to rehabilitate," adding: "That's why they are here, in a maximum security prison ...

A former prison guard was convicted Tuesday of 64 counts of rape, sodomy and sexual battery on 13 female prisoners at California’s state prison in Chowchilla. Gregory Rodriguez, 56, sat with his ...

They are paid a maximum of $10.24 a day ... lines and remove fuel to slow fire spread,” according to the California’s prison agency, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

More than 1,800 incarcerated firefighters live year-round in minimum-security ... to a declining prison population. “Wildfires are a constant and formidable challenge for California, and ...