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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

SACRAMENTO, CA — An inmate with a violent history who was sentenced out of the Inland Empire is suspected in a prison attack ...

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 ...