Immigrants decry conditions at former prison, ICE's largest detention center in California

Detainees report prison-like conditions inside the California City facility and lack of access to medical care. Advocates are ...

CoreCivic prison company will rake in $300 million from new ICE contracts

A private prison company announced three contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars last week that will boost the Trump ...
Merced Sun-Star

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 ...
The Real News Network

‘We’ve got four public prisons and one private prison closed’: CA abolitionist coalition takes on the prison-industrial complex

In July 2024, CURB, Critical Resistance, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, and Riverside All of Us Or None organized a rally in front of the California Rehabilitation Center (CRC) to demand its ...
Los Angeles Daily News

Tinisch Hollins: California should reinvest prison savings in crime prevention

This month’s announcement by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation that it is seeking to close the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco by next Fall provides a golden ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Will this Southern California prison become a luxury hotel again?

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Before it became a prison, the California Correctional Facility in Norco was a luxury hotel, sanitorium and Navy ...