Californians voted down Proposition 6, a ballot measure that eliminates the state’s constitutional provision that allows ...
Two California residents are accused of stealing $2.1 million in COVID-19 jobless benefits using stolen identities of prison ...
California's Constitution already prohibits so-called involuntary servitude, but an exception allows it to be used as a ...
"All the people in prison that I know want to work. We just want to do it on our own terms," writes Steve Brooks.
The lawsuit alleges a corrections officer fired the shot when the inmate was on the ground and “posed no threat.” ...
Prison officials said the man’s cellmate, who has a previous conviction for assaulting a prisoner, was under investigation in ...
A man serving a lengthy prison sentence after being convicted in 2019 in the human trafficking of a 15-year-old girl in the ...
California lawmakers agreed to put Proposition 6 on the ballot at the urging of criminal justice advocates. Since 2018, at ...
Cal Poly Humboldt’s bachelor’s program offers new opportunity to people incarcerated at maximum-security Pelican Bay State ...
The measure would have amended the state’s constitution to repeal language that allows involuntary servitude as a form of ...
Other states, including Nevada, are deleting references to slavery in their constitutions and banning forced prison labor. California voters rejected that path when they turned down Prop. 6.