Some California policymakers and prison officials contend that offering more single-occupancy cells might serve the best ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is terrorizing our state. Earlier this month, immigration agents and National Guard troops swept into MacArthur Park, frightening families and disrupting a ...

With our free press under threat and federal funding for public media gone, your support matters more than ever. Help keep the LAist newsroom strong, become a monthly member or increase your support ...

Federal authorities plan to open the largest immigration detention center in California at a former state prison in a Kern County desert town about an hour southeast of Bakersfield. It’s not ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Seven immigrants sued ICE and DHS, alleging inhumane conditions at California City Detention Facility in the ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Seven detainees at an immigration detention center in California City have sued U.S. Immigration and Customs ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom shouldn’t expect much pushback from the next city in line to lose a state prison. Norco, in Riverside County, for years has been lobbying to close the California Rehabilitation ...

Take Riverside’s iconic Mission Inn Hotel & Spa, put it on a hill above a lake and you’ll see what the Norco prison site could become in Kevin Bash’s mind. San Jose State University now officially ...

Immigrant rights activists are warning that the Trump administration is transporting immigration detainees to a private prison in the California desert that is operating illegally and could put ...

California City Correctional Facility in eastern Kern County. Federal authorities are planning to open California’s largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center at the site of the ...

With our free press under threat and federal funding for public media gone, your support matters more than ever. Help keep the LAist newsroom strong, become a monthly member or increase your support ...