Kern Valley State Prison News

Before dawn four weeks ago, some 1,300 cops and federal agents fanned across the badlands of Los Angeles in a massive crackdown on the Avenues gang, inviting along a few reporters to observe them as they quietly approached 42 run-down hovels and crowded apartment buildings, arresting some of the city's most violent men and women.

Dozens of the Valley's prison teachers stepped out of the classroom Wednesday and stepped up to protect their jobs.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced today the appointment of Anthony Hedgpeth, 56, of Salinas, as warden of Salinas Valley State Prison.

There's no margin in cop killing. Just ask members of the Avenues gang, affiliates of the Mexican Mafia, who got rolled Tuesday up by the LAPD, the FBI and an alphabet soup of local, county and federal law enforcement agencies.

Nick McHenry, the brother of murder victim, Jessica McHenry, stands beneath a memorial coastal live oak tree planted in Jessica's memory at Ida Holmes Park in Livermore, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept.

DELANO, Calif.-Authorities say an inmate convicted of killing four California Highway Patrol officers died over the weekend at Kern Valley State Prison in an apparent suicide.