The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced Monday that the condemned 75-year-old man, Richard J.

Hirschfield, was most recently sentenced by Sacramento County on Jan. 25, 2013, and placed on condemned status. He was ...

A death row inmate who sexually assaulted an 18-year-old UC Davis student before killing the teen and her college sweetheart ...

A homicide investigation is underway at California State Prison, Sacramento after an inmate was attacked by another inmate on ...

John Riggins and Sabrina Gonsalves were 18-year-old freshmen at UC Davis when they were kidnapped and killed in December 1980 ...

Efforts to reform life inside the walls of the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla are making headway. But most ...

A KQED investigation has found California State Prison, Sacramento has the highest use of force rates in the state.

Supreme Court standards prohibit officer use of force only if it is "malicious and sadistic." Courts rarely rule that extreme ...

Federal grand jury indicts correctional officer and inmate for conspiring to violate inmate's rights at California State ...

California prison officials are investigating after an inmate allegedly killed another inmate and attacked a third inmate ...

The stabbings, which were witnessed by correctional officers, happened just after 6 p.m. in a prison dayroom, officials said.