Across the U.S., tough-on-crime policies are surging again, despite research showing they do little to reduce crime, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Attorneys for Lyle and Erik Menendez said Wednesday that California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered the ...

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

A freshman Democratic congressman is introducing a bill to protect the jobs of veterans working for the government amid mass ...

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 ...

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

A San Diego inmate is accused of attacking and killing a fellow prisoner Sunday in a Sacramento prison, state corrections ...

Two state prison inmates, including one sentenced for a San Diego County burglary and assault, are suspected of killing a ...

At Nottoway Correctional Center, the outlook was bleak. Two nurses at the all-male state prison staffed a day shift meant to be staffed by eight. Emergency medical requests from inmates were ...

The leader of the Drug Trafficking Organization (DTO) was sentenced to 14 1/2 years in prison, while others received 5-6 ...