Californians voted down Proposition 6, a ballot measure that eliminates the state’s constitutional provision that allows ...

The measure would have amended the state’s constitution to repeal language that allows involuntary servitude as a form of ...

As the days since Helene and Milton’s one-two punch have stretched into weeks, the region absorbed many losses: Family members, homes, a sense of stability. But there are some losses the community ...

"All the people in prison that I know want to work. We just want to do it on our own terms," writes Steve Brooks.

California lawmakers agreed to put Proposition 6 on the ballot at the urging of criminal justice advocates. Since 2018, at ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is investigating the death of inmate Nick Vedol Lopez, 55, at ...

The lawsuit alleges a corrections officer fired the shot when the inmate was on the ground and “posed no threat.” ...

Cal Poly Humboldt’s bachelor’s program offers new opportunity to people incarcerated at maximum-security Pelican Bay State ...

A judge is postponing a decision on whether to undo President-elect Donald Trump's conviction in his hush money case because ...

Once again, California voters demonstrated in this ... continue assigning prison inmates to work in kitchens, clean prison yards or pick up trash beside highways. Prisoners will keep fighting fires, ...

The West Coast state has decided to keep slavery legal, allowing prisons and jails across California to force involuntary ...