In rejecting Proposition 6, voters kept a constitutional provision outlawing slavery except "to punish crime." Gov. Gavin ...

Guard was escorting the convicted murderer back to his cell when the inmate turned on him, prison officials said.

Photo by Matthew LeJune via Unsplash A prison nurse accused of showing young children nude photos of himself at a California ...

A Californian was sentenced to prison for acting as an unregistered agent of China and offering bribes, targeting Falun Gong ...

Proposition 6 would have banned the use of involuntary servitude as punishment for crimes. It was rejected by California ...

One of the critical jobs that prisoners can be required to work is fighting wildfires. While salaried firefighters in ...

California has rejected a ballot measure that would have amended the state constitution to ban forced prison labor ...

Californians voted down Proposition 6, a ballot measure that eliminates the state’s constitutional provision that allows ...

There's speculation that California is becoming more conservative after voters approved stricter punishments for some crimes. The changes move it more toward the center politically than the right.

People who are incarcerated are often paid less than $1 an hour to fight fires, clean cells and do landscaping work at ...

California in the 1970s cleaned up its constitution to remove any reference to slavery. Yes, slavery was abolished in 1865 ...