BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — An inmate who was housed at California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi was acquitted Wednesday of possessing a 7-inch metal shank, his public defender arguing a ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Two inmates on Tuesday were each sentenced to more than a decade of additional time in custody for assaulting another inmate in the exercise yard of Tehachapi’s California ...

TEHACHAPI – Two inmates stabbed three guards at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi on Thursday and all state prisons were locked down as a precaution, a corrections official said.

— A Tehachapi prison inmate stabbed a guard twice in the forehead Friday and struck another guard in the arm with a homemade weapon he pulled from his pants, a prison spokesman said. Both officers ...