December 25, 2025 – CRESCENT CITY, CA – Benjamin W. Watta, who was serving a condemned sentence, died on December 22, 2025, ...

Officials at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano are investigating the Wednesday death of an inmate as a homicide. Prisoners William A. Nesler III and Edward R. Holden III allegedly attacked inmate ...

Eve murder, decades of silence, death row without execution—this chilling California cold case ends inside a prison cell.

A condemned inmate was stabbed to death at North Kern State Prison on Friday, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Kern County coroner's office. Julian ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation faces a wrongful death lawsuit that alleges a corrections officer fired a 40 mm “less lethal” projectile that struck an inmate’s head as he ...

Twenty-one California prisons - including two facilities near Folsom - are immediately suspending inmate visitations following spikes in drug overdoses and violent attacks on prisoners and officers, ...

Two inmates were attacked with an inmate-manufactured weapon, leaving one dead, in Kern Valley State Prison in Delano on Thursday, according to the California Department of Corrections and ...

The death of a Yolo County man at Salinas Valley State Prison this week is being investigated as a homicide, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Wednesday. Israel M.

California State Prison, Sacramento, once known as New Folsom, was opened in 1986 and is adjacent to Folsom State Prison, California’s second-oldest correctional facility. CSP Sacramento houses ...