Prison health workers are among the best-paid public employees. Why are so many jobs vacant?

Despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars to fill vacant medical and mental health positions at prisons and state hospitals, California has little to show for it, according to a new report from ...
Governing

California Spent Millions on Prison Health Staffing. Vacancies Kept Growing

A new state audit finds vacancy rates above 30 percent despite hundreds of millions spent on salaries, bonuses and contract ...
Sacramento Bee

What’s next for historic Riverside prison and the state workers who staff it?

For years, residents of Norco have tried to convince the state to close a medium-security prison occupying roughly 100 acres of prime real estate in the Southern California city. Last week, the ...
East Bay Times

Are closing California prisons a solution for county jail crisis? Some prison guards think so.

Correctional officers at the California Rehabilitation Center (CRC) in Norco have started writing Attorney General Rob Bonta to to keep the prison open, presenting it as an option to alleviate the ...