February 14, 2026 – SOLEDAD, CA – California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are investigating the February 13, 2026, death of an incarcerated person at Salinas Valley ...
The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office recommended closing the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad to help California reduce its corrections spending. Andrew Kuhn akuhn@mercedsun-star.com ...
Mr. Sittenfeld is a freelance writer working on a memoir. On my second day into my 16-month sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Ashland, Ky., I surprised myself by doing something that ...
A screenshot of a video of a protest in Canaleta prison, in Ciego de Ávila, Cuba. UNPACU, José Daniel Ferrer. Unprecedented videos coming out of a high-security prison in Cuba have shown, possibly for ...
ACTION NEWS 8 REPORTER JAZMON DEJARNETTE HAS MORE...### THE FAMILY OF 36-YEAR-OLD JOSEPH MENDOZA IS FILING A LAWSUIT AGAINST THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND SALINAS VALLEY STATE PRISON ...
Salinas Valley State Prison inmates Dan Felix, left, and Bryan Ramirez. (CDCR) SOLEDAD — California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are investigating the Feb. 13 death of ...
A former California correctional lieutenant, Matthew L. Madsen, was arrested on federal charges alleging he smuggled cellphones and tobacco to an inmate in exchange for $100,000 in bribes. Prosecutors ...
The family of a man stabbed to death inside a California prison has filed a lawsuit alleging that prison employees recorded the attack instead of helping. According to the lawsuit, which was reviewed ...
Joseph Mendoza, 36, was stabbed nearly 180 times and died at the Salinas Valley State Prison. Someone on staff captured video of the stabbing and leaked it where it appeared on social media, according ...