An Upland man was sentenced to a life term in prison Thursday for a deadly high-speed chase that stretched from Barstow to Tehachapi, ending with a head-on collision on Highway 58 that killed a ...

Operators of a 2,560-bed detention center in City announced this week a two-year contract with the federal government even as local advocates say the facility’s conditions are substandard. CoreCivic, ...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials are investigating the death of an inmate at High Desert ...

Two inmates at California State Prison Solano are under investigation after an inmate died following a prison yard attack Wednesday morning. According to the California Department of Corrections and ...

Attorneys for former Kern County Supervisor Zack Scrivner filed a motion for enrollment in a mental health diversion program ...

A 27-year-old California State Prison, Solano inmate was stabbed with an “improvised weapon” and died Wednesday and two other ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A federal jury has deadlocked for the second time in a trial of a former correctional officer charged with sexually abusing four inmates at a now-closed federal women’s prison ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is investigating the murder of an inmate at the Salinas Valley ...

An innocent man who spent 38 years behind bars in California was awarded $25 million in what his lawyers called the largest wrongful conviction settlement in state history. The settlement was reached ...

It's astonishing to learn that the ruins of a 2,000-year-old Native American village exist near the much younger, 149-year-old village of Tehachapi. Located a short drive from the mountain town about ...