California Prisons

On this edition of Your Call, we get an update from Uncuffed, KALW's audio journalism program in San Quentin and Solano prisons. March 11 marks one year…

On this edition of Your Call, we get an update from Uncuffed, KALW's audio journalism program in San Quentin and Solano prisons. March 11 marks one year…

The California Department Of Corrections, or CDCR, is reducing the cost of phone calls for inmates.Officials signed a new six-year contract, on Monday,…

Another California death row inmate at San Quentin State Prison has died from apparent complications of the coronavirus in the midst of an outbreak that…

California lawmakers harshly criticized state corrections officials Wednesday, saying they botched their handling of the coronavirus pandemic by…

COVID-19 has spread to San Quentin State Prison, where over a dozen people incarcerated there have now been diagnosed with the virus. San Quentin began…

California prison officials have halted an effort aimed at forcing warring prison gangs to get along with each other after the inmates wound up brawling…

Six by ten feet. That’s the average size of solitary confinement cells. Tens of thousands of people incarcerated in the United States linger in solitary…

When someone is imprisoned, it doesn’t just affect the incarcerated. It affects the people left behind. Young people. Nearly three million children in the…