A 31-year-old man convicted of sexually abusing an underage girl for years, beginning when she was 7, has been sentenced to ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle a lawsuit filed by 13 women who say correctional officers injured them during a mass use-of-force ...

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The investigations are the latest moves by the Trump administration to force prisons to house transgender women with male inmates. By Jenna Russell The Department of Justice told the governors of ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - A Glendale, California man was sentenced March 18 to prison for production of child pornography, including a victim who lived in Scribner, Nebraska. Jamal Tatum, 45, was sentenced ...

The Executive Council tabled a $36 million contract to design a new prison for men in Concord Wednesday after one councilor noted the same vendor had been paid to convert a private prison in Oklahoma ...

OAKLAND — The massive criminal prosecution of ex-East Contra Costa police officers ended Tuesday afternoon in a federal courthouse, with the sentencing of a defendant accused of some of the most ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is investigating the death of a 72-year-old inmate as a homicide at a California State Prison, Corcoran facility. On March 20 at 8 a.m., ...

A California man who killed a Los Angeles mother of six less than a year after being paroled for a double murder under a youthful offender law was sentenced to life in prison, authorities said Friday.

California lawmakers who want to cut down on the billions the state spends on incarceration face an uphill battle to reduce prison expenses, which have remained persistently high despite efforts to ...

The potentially record-shattering heat wave roasting California this week reminds Lawrence Cox of the people locked in suffocating state prison cells with no windows. Temperatures inside aging prison ...

COLUMBIA — Former conservative South Carolina state Rep. RJ May has been relocated to a federal prison in Pennsylvania to serve a 17.5 year sentence following his guilty plea tied to distributing ...