California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

David Herbert, an honorably discharged disabled veteran, was sentenced to nearly nine years behind bars. He has served just 17 months

A former California state prison inmate tells her story of sexual abuse by prison staff during her time incarcerated. A closer look at newly released records reveals a culture of sexual misconduct in California’s women’s prisons.

A California Highway Patrol officer killed in a shootout at a traffic stop in Riverside was remembered Tuesday for his selfless dedication to serving his community and the unwavering enthusiasm he had for his dream job.

The first U.S. inmate to have taxpayer-funded sex reassignment surgery, Shiloh Heavenly Quine, says she’s been mistreated since being transferred to a California women’s prison, where she now has a beard and mustache because officials have denied her a razor.

The son of a former California State Assembly speaker has been freed from prison after his manslaughter sentence was significantly reduced in 2011 by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered California’s corrections department to provide a transsexual inmate with sex change surgery, the first time such an operation has been ordered in the state.

One of the four men convicted of participating in a string of racially motivated attacks in the mid-1970s that killed 14 people and injured seven in San Francisco was found dead in his cell, California prison officials said Friday.