A Fresno man already serving time in a Northern California prison is accused of attempting to kill a correctional officer with an improvised weapon, according to the California Department of ...

Video from inside a Riverside County jail shows a violent confrontation in October 2020 in which 10 sheriff’s deputies burst into the cell of a man who was having delusions and resisting medical care, ...

A correctional officer at California Medical Facility in Vacaville was attacked and injured while trying to remove an inmate from his cell Wednesday, according to California Department of Corrections ...

VACAVILLE, Calif. - A correctional officer was attacked and injured during an incident at a state prison in Vacaville on Wednesday when trying to remove one of the inmates from their cell, officials ...

The use of dogs to threaten and attack prisoners to facilitate cell extractions has been a well-kept secret, even in the world of corrections. Human Rights Watch has spoken with more than two dozen ...

A suspended sergeant accused of covering up a coordinated beating of inmates at New Jersey’s women’s prison faces new charges under a superseding indictment, state authorities announced Monday. Sgt.

A 15th corrections officer has been indicted in connection with a January 2021 incident at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women where inmates were allegedly forcibly removed from cells ...

Two officers sustained puncture wounds and a third officer sustained a hand injury after an inmate armed with a make-shift shank attacked them inside his cell at Five Points Correctional Facility. On ...

Editor's note: Christopher Damien is reporting about law enforcement in Southern California’s inland and desert communities for The New York Times and The Desert Sun as part of The Times’s Local ...