KINGS COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Two California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officers were involved in a deadly head-on crash in Kings County, according to the California Highway Patrol.

California officials are eyeing the Porterville Developmental Center as a possible treatment site for inmates hit by massive coronavirus outbreaks at crowded Kings County prisons as families of ...

Coronavirus outbreaks in central San Joaquin Valley detention facilities spread this week to Tulare County and also apparently claimed the life of another Avenal State Prison inmate. Just a day after ...

Ed Welker has only been incarcerated at Avenal State Prison, located in rural Kings County in the San Joaquin Valley, since March. But when he was recently moved to a new dorm in a different yard, he ...

Responding to Governor Schwarzenegger's direction for state agencies to assist the firefighting efforts in southern California, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is ...