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

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 said it discovered weapons, cell phones, syringes and other ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has suspended visits and phone access at 21 state prisons due to a rise in violence and overdoses. The department said the modified program ...

More than a dozen state prison facilities — including four in Kern County — have been placed under a higher-than-normal level of restrictions following high rates of inmate violence and contraband.

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

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — An inmate serving a sentence for human trafficking of a child was allegedly killed by his cellmate at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano. California Department of ...

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 ...