Folsom State Prison

The devastating toll of San Quentin State Prison’s recent COVID-19 outbreak, which infected more than 2,400 people at the prison and was among the worst outbreaks in the country, may have spread beyond the prison’s walls.

Nearly 90 inmates at Folsom State Prison have tested positive for the coronavirus in the latest outbreak to hit California’s troubled corrections system.

Some good news, in our collective fight against COVID-19. The number of hospitalizations is the lowest it’s been across the state in six weeks and it’s happening locally too. Ian Cull reports.

Gov. Gavin Newsom says California is turning the corner in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic

The NBA is sending players and coaches into prisons to host pickup games with inmates as part of a new effort designed to lessen the stigmas around those behind bars. The Sacramento Kings kicked off the first in a nationwide series of contests this week at Folsom State Prison, made famous in the Johnny Cash song.

The family of a 4-year-old Oakland boy who accidentally shot himself in the head last week is asking California’s governor to let the boy’s father temporarily leave prison to be by his son’s hospital bedside.

A California man who spent a quarter-century behind bars for shooting at a group of teenagers — an attack he denied committing — was freed from prison on Thursday after the governor commuted his sentence, his attorneys said.

Gary Calvin gripped his bass guitar and dug into a low-end funky groove, eyes clenched as his fingers plucked a flurry of notes that reverberated off the room full of empty metal tables — drawing the sleepy gaze of an armed guard. Maybe this particular music wasn’t historic, but the place of its conception certainly was. This was dining room...

Guards have killed an inmate and critically wounded another at a California state prison.