Steven Cuevas

An Inland Empire museum wants your body. Actually what you put on your body. The Riverside Metropolitan Museum is seeking tattooed and bejeweled subjects for an exhibit called “Adornment.”

Last August, a riot at the California Institution for Men in Chino demolished barracks and injured about 200 prisoners. Some prisoners claim they had to live outdoors for nearly a week after the riot. Others say the practice began months before the riot and hasn’t stopped.

Lt. Mark Hargrove slowly steers an SUV across Reception Center West at the California Institution for Men. Reception Center West features an open field lined with eight wooden barracks.

Rumors of violence swirled for days before the riot exploded inside the Chino prison’s Reception Center West.

State investigators are launching a probe of inmate treatment at the California Institution for Men in Chino. The Office of the Inspector General investigation of the prison comes in response to information uncovered by KPCC that inmates were held outdoors for days at a time, because of the prison’s lack of bed space.

Memorial plans are in the works for an influential California musician who left an indelible mark on music as a member of Janis Joplin’s band. Guitarist James Gurley died of heart failure over the Christmas holiday.

More than a thousand members of a little known branch of Islam are gathering this weekend in Chino. The annual retreat is a time for Ahmadiyya Muslims to reaffirm beliefs that some consider heretical.

San Bernardino County authorities are on the hunt for a man and a woman wanted for allegedly torturing a 5-year-old boy.

Music fans across the globe are rejoicing! Tickets for the 2010 Coachella Valley Music Festival are now on sale - even though it's not clear who'll be in the show.

State prison officials today released details regarding a long and bloody riot at a state prison in Chino last August. More than 200 inmates were injured in the violence at the California Institution for Men – or CIM.