Justice

Immigrant detention centers are receiving high marks for health and safety under the Trump administration, according to a new investigation by the Project on Government Oversight.

California is closing prisons because it's incarcerating fewer people. Several towns with shuttered prisons now are struggling to lure new employers.

A two-year federal investigation found decades of staff sexual abuse against incarcerated women at California correctional facilities.

The California Supreme Court threw out a guilty plea from a woman who did not understand that a conviction would jeopardize her immigration status.

The warrantless arrests have been a key feature of the government's mass deportation efforts.

The California Highway Patrol lost an effort to fire one of the officers it caught billing the state for overtime hours they didn't work at a Los Angeles station.

A federal judge held the Department of Homeland Security in contempt for not disclosing records related to the cellphone communications of immigration agents in Los Angeles.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Trump administration's policy of refusing bond hearings to most unauthorized immigrants who are detained in the interior of the United States.

The report follows a CalMatters investigation highlighting problems with privatized public defense.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement quickly opened a new detention center in a former California state prison last year. Detainees now are suing over their access to healthcare.