
California will soon provide taxpayer-funded genital altering “sex change” surgery for prison inmates, with a new policy coming out this week that includes standards to approve the estimated $100,000 procedure.
by Michelle Moons22 Oct 2015, 1:19 PM PST0

On Thursday, California corrections officials announced that prison guards would be issued earplugs and instructed to tiptoe around the cells of the most dangerous convicts in the state so the inmates can sleep peacefully.
by William Bigelow18 Sep 2015, 11:37 AM PST0

California’s Proposition 47 of 2014, The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, which changed some drug and property crimes from felonies to misdemeanors, has coincided with a rise in crime in parts of the state.
by William Bigelow16 Aug 2015, 1:23 PM PST0

A unique reunion was held at Alcatraz on Sunday between former prison guards and former inmates to celebrate the 81st anniversary of the infamous federal penitentiary.
by Adelle Nazarian10 Aug 2015, 11:55 AM PST0

Governor Jerry Brown’s policies reducing the number of inmates in the state have not affected the number of firefighters fighting fires.
by William Bigelow6 Aug 2015, 1:02 PM PST0

Five inmates in the San Francisco County Jail are alleging that sheriffs’ deputies forced them to fight each other for the deputies’ amusement, city public defender Jeff Adachi said Thursday.
by William Bigelow27 Mar 2015, 12:20 PM PST0

Low-risk, female inmates at Downtown Los Angeles’s Twin Towers jail design and deliver over 1,000 warm blankets to children who are sick or in foster care each year, just in time for the cold winter.
by Adelle Nazarian5 Jan 2015, 5:50 AM PST0