California Won't Meet Court Deadline To Reduce Prison Overcrowding
The state has until June 2013 to reduce its prison population by about 34,000 inmates. Currently the prisons are 80 percent above capacity.
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The state has until June 2013 to reduce its prison population by about 34,000 inmates. Currently the prisons are 80 percent above capacity.
A state prison overcrowding fix that places post-sentenced prisoners into local hands has San Francisco officials fearing they'll get hundreds of troubled parolees, and not enough money to supervise them.
California's State Controller John Chiang has released another report showing the high salaries of some state employees.
CBS recently got an inside account of Nancy Garrido's life behind bars now that she has begun serving a sentence for her involvement in the kidnapping and rape of Jaycee Dugard.
Some of the state's inmates get to do time in the great outdoors, but it's not without risk. Danny Richards asked this Good Question: Are inmates still used to fight fires in California?
The man sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping, raping and holding Jaycee Dugard captive for 18 years arrived at a state prison Thursday, where he will have some notorious neighbors.
Governor Jerry Brown's administration is scheduled to release its plan for complying with a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision ordering the state to greatly reduce its inmate population.
California improperly paroled more than 450 dangerous criminals without supervision last year as part of a program designed to reduce prison crowding and cost, according to a new report.
After 24 years of incarceration, Ernest Morgan, who was freed from San Quentin State Prison Thursday morning, planned to head to Mama's restaurant in San Francisco's North Beach with his family for an omelette.
Gov. Jerry Brown has adopted a parole policy far more lenient than his predecessors, blocking the parole orders of only 27 convicted killers facing life sentences since taking office in January.
The Solano County Sheriff expects an influx of about 400 new inmates in local jails over the next three years under a new law that requires county facilities to house low-level state prison inmates.
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill into law that will shift responsibility for thousands of criminals to local governments.
A minimum-security inmate who escaped from a conservation camp in Solano County Sunday night was captured in Rio Vista late Thursday night, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said this afternoon.
A union representing state prison guards reached a tentative contract agreement Tuesday with Gov. Jerry Brown's administration.
A 20-minute phone conversation has cost a San Mateo County woman convicted of burglary six years in prison.
State prison authorities have released a photo of an inmate who is believed to have escaped a detention facility in Solano County on Sunday night.
The father of John Walker Lindh, a Marin County man convicted of aiding the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, spoke about his son's case Wednesday at the University of San Francisco.
San Mateo County already houses more than 1,000 inmates in facilities meant for just 834. Under the governor's plan, the county could be forced to house 40% more by year's end, something Munks described as a potential crisis.
Two East Bay officials with a large number of parolees in their respective districts say there must be a better plan for re-integrating ex-cons into the mainstream.
California and Maryland prison officials said Friday they have suspended youthful offender diversion programs featured on the television show "Beyond Scared Straight."
California corrections officials are postponing a decision on which company should build the new death row at San Quentin, hoping to overcome local opposition to the project, and convince Governor Jerry Brown to move forward with the plan.
Governor Brown's proposal to cut corrections costs by sending non-violent prisoners to county jails, rather than state prison, is worth discussing, said a Santa Clara County jail official, but only if the price is right.
One of California's most infamous prisoners has been communicating from behind prison walls making calls and sending texts with a cell phone smuggled into his cell.
The murder arraignment of San Quentin State Prison inmate Frank Anthony Souza was postponed Friday morning in Marin County Superior Court until Monday.
Marin County has filed a lawsuit seeking to block the state from beginning construction on a $356 million death row complex until all legal issues are resolved.
