Prisons

The Trump administration immigration crackdown swelled the population inside California's immigrant detention centers. State investigators in a report described strained medical resources inside the sites.

California lawmakers want to expand organized sports at state prisons, but an incarcerated journalist fears it will benefit the corrections department more than inmates.

As lawmakers weigh changing elderly parole, a retired parole board officer notes that only 3% of parolees have committed crimes upon release.

California now has eight ICE detention centers. Two opened since President Trump took office in 2025, with both operating in former state prisons.

The potential release of two men who were convicted of molesting children in the Sacramento region has California lawmakers racing to revise elderly parole rules.

Every incarcerated person in a California prison has a digital tablet enabling communication with the outside world. A new vendor is bringing more streaming entertainment, but with a cost.

California is incarcerating 70,000 fewer people than in 2010, enabling the Newsom administration to close five state prisons. It has capacity to shut one more, according to a new analysis.

Under elderly parole, inmates 50 or older who served 20 years or more could be eligible for a parole hearing — regardless of how violent their crime was.

Gov. Gavin Newsom pushed California's prison system to embrace rehabilitation for incarcerated people. Will it be a lasting shift?

Gov. Gavin Newsom suspended the death penalty and ordered the dismantling of death row. He unveiled changes at San Quentin that include a new education center.