The family of a Merced inmate fatally stabbed nearly 180 times at a state prison is suing the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for “deliberate indifference” after horrifying ...

Two inmates in a California state prison are being investigated for the alleged murder of a third inmate in one of the facility’s yards on Sunday, officials with the California Department of ...

Officials are investigating the death of 41-year-old Brion E. Spidle following a fight over the weekend at the Pleasant Valley State Prison. Two other inmates, Jorge Ortega and Victor Wence, were ...

California prison officials are investigating the death of an inmate at High Desert State Prison near Susanville as a potential homicide. Joseph Reagan, 44, died Tuesday evening following an alleged ...

Three convicted killers who are serving sentences at Salinas Valley State Prison in Central California are suspected of killing a fellow inmate during an attack Thursday morning. According to the ...