California Institution for Men News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California prison investigators said an ongoing feud between black and Hispanic street gangs sparked a summer riot that injured 240 inmates.

About three years ago, we called for making the state prisons chief an elected position like attorney general.

Major expansion of adult prison operations in the Chino Valley may provide a slight boost to the economy and to city coffers, but it may also affect some municipal services, officials said.

The state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation will soon slash drug rehab programs for state inmates as part of $1.2 billion in budget cuts - though some fear the severe program reduction may be more trouble than its benefit.

Officials from Chino and Chino Hills have protested state plans to house mentally ill prisoners at the California Institution for Men since 2005, when a proposal surfaced to build a facility for 1,500 such inmates at the Chino prison complex.

When Jeremy Moose gets out of prison in 2012, the state will have spent more than $611,000 for his 13-year stint behind the bars - plus an additional $1,560 in waived tuition fees for his college education.

When the prison whistle blew at 9 p.m. sharp, it was a signal for Mike Poulos to finally drop his guard.

A state inmate charged in the 2005 slayings of a Mentone man and his stepson, who was asleep with his newborn son when he was shot, was arraigned this morning in San Bernardino Superior Court.

Officers of the Chino Police Department never stopped working on Leopoldo Servin's murder, a crime that took place in a Chino alleyway the evening of Jan.

It was a bittersweet day. More than two dozen inmates at California Institution for Men on Wednesday were awarded certificates in landscaping, forklift and janitorial services - all vocational programs that, due to budget cuts, will no longer be offered at the prison.

Parenting from behind bars is difficult at best. Visits are rare, contact is limited, you are not an example you want your kids to follow.

Dawn Davison wanted to do more for "her ladies" than the cash-strapped state could provide.

Teachers with the Service Employees International Union are crying foul over a move by the state that they say would eliminate 700 of the 1,300 teachers statewide who teach vocational job skills and education in prisons Several teachers protested a governor's proposal Friday outside the California Institution for Men in Chino on Friday to protest ...

Reporting from Sacramento - State prison officials have confiscated 4,130 contraband cellphones this year, more than all those seized in the previous three years combined, according to an internal report released Thursday.

A report noting 60 percent of inmates released from California prisons in the past three years have returned to jail illustrates the state's difficulty in reducing its inmate population.

State prison officials have confiscated 4,130 contraband cellphones this year, more than all those seized in the previous three years combined, according to an internal report released today.

Death Row inmate Kevin Cooper petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court this week, seeking the court's intervention in an appeal of his murder convictions for a brutal attack that left four people dead in Chino Hills in 1983.

Hatch was placed in the segregation unit as any other inmate would be after arriving at the jail, she said.

A California prison was under lockdown Tuesday as administrators investigated a riot involving rival Latino gangs that sent 24 inmates to hospitals, one in serious condition.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger tours the California Institution for Men prison Aug.