California lawmakers are trying to make sure there's enough money to pay the costs of Prop. 36, which reinstated felony ...

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

Research shows that imposing longer sentences harms inmates and society. There are less expensive − and more effective − ways ...

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

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

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 ...

RIVERSIDE — A 25-year-old motorist who killed a man in a fiery wreck while the defendant was driving under the influence on ...

Two inmates at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi have been sentenced to additional prison time for their ...

New details have emerged in the murder of a beloved Cal Fire captain who authorities say was killed by her wife, who remains ...