DUBLIN, Calif. - The remaining employees at the now-closed women's prison in Dublin, Calif., were told this week that they must work at a high-security prison in Atwater, Calif., nearly 90 miles away, ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The three people arrested following the death of a worker at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atwater have been formally charged by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), federal ...

Three people have been arrested in connection to the death of a prison employee at U.S. Penitentiary Atwater, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday. A prison mail room correctional officer died ...

The Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons United States Penitentiary in Atwater, California. Pictured is the upstairs showing some of the typical general population unit exterior doors.

The mailroom supervisor at a federal prison in Atwater died Friday, as a result of exposure to mail saturated in an unknown substance. A second worker was also exposed and hospitalized, but released ...

ATWATER, Calif. -- A Federal Bureau of Prisons employee died after coming into contact with an unknown substance, suspected to be fentanyl, in the mail room at U.S. Penitentiary Atwater, according to ...

(AP) – A federal prison inmate and two other people were charged Tuesday with conspiring to mail drugs to a penitentiary in California where a mailroom supervisor died this month after opening a ...

Several inmates at the U.S Penitentiary in Atwater assaulted staff members with a sharpened blade Friday morning, leading to multiple injuries, officials said. Shortly after 8 a.m., several inmates ...

The upcoming trial of an inmate charged with killing a federal correctional officer at the U.S. penitentiary in Atwater, Calif., has now been moved to Southern California, in part because of a highway ...

A federal inmate accused of murdering Correctional Officer Jose Rivera at U.S. Penitentiary Atwater has failed in his efforts to dismiss the indictment or exclude the death penalty. But in a new ...

A 55-year-old fugitive who escaped from federal prison in North California and was on the lam for nearly eight years has been caught and indicted, prosecutors said. Eric Pree, of San Francisco, was ...

A federal prison inmate and two other people were charged Tuesday with conspiring to mail drugs to a penitentiary in California where a mailroom supervisor died this month after opening a letter that ...