Law Enforcement Operations
CDCR works with other agencies in joint law enforcement operations to help protect the public.

In the early morning hours on March 23, the CDCR Crisis Response Team from three prisons joined the Blythe Police...

Thanks to hard work of investigators at Pelican Bay State Prison, other CDCR staff, and outside law enforcement partners, seized...

Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 132, The Transgender Respect, Agency and Dignity Act, legislation that will allow incarcerated transgender,...

Today, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) announced the closure of Deuel Vocational Institution (DVI) in Tracy. The...

CDCR parole and Special Services Unit agents assisted numerous federal, state, city and county agencies shutdown a deadly fentanyl distribution...
Read More About CDCR Parole, SSU agents assist in fentanyl take‑down

Across the state, CDCR officials work to prevent gang-related criminal activity in the state's correctional institutions. One such effort involved...
Read More About CDCR anti‑gang efforts foil Mexican Mafia’s CSP‑Los Angeles County plans

A multi-agency parole compliance sweep netted guns, drugs and arrests. The sweeps were conducted in the cities of Hanford, Lemoore...

CDCR's Office of Correctional Safety (OCS) assisted in a predawn anti-gang sweep, seizing the largest amount of firearms in Merced...
Read More About CDCR’s OCS hits streets in Merced County gang raids

A wide net was cast last October when Division of Adult Parole Operations (DAPO) Region III agents joined an FBI...