Seven senators, including two from California, wrote to the U.S. Attorney General objecting to a plan that would use federal ...

Newly revealed details from an arrest warrant describe the final moments of a California fire captain found fatally stabbed ...

California lawmakers are trying to make sure there's enough money to pay the costs of Prop. 36, which reinstated felony sentences and prison time for some repeat theft and drug crimes.

Court records have revealed new information about the suspect in the killing of Cal Fire Capt. Rebecca Marodi.

California lawmakers tried to figure out how to fund and fully implement Proposition 36, the crime measure voters ...

WASHINGTON, DC – A report titled “Cut-Rate Care” by the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) released in February exposes the ...

California lawmakers in the State Senate on Tuesday began the process of figuring out how to fund and fully implement ...

Authorities are searching for an inmate who escaped from custody at a Long Beach facility Tuesday night. Evans L. Eithan, 23, was serving his sentence at the Male Community Reentry Program ...

The decree promises ongoing trauma-related health care for the affected inmates and oversight to prevent future abuse.

A judge has given final approval to a legal settlement that subjects the federal Bureau of Prisons to independent monitoring ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials are investigating the death of an inmate in Sacramento as a homicide. At 1:21 p.m. on Feb. 23, officers ...

A Montana man faces years in prison at his Wednesday sentencing for threatening to assault former House Speaker Kevin ...