The man in charge of a review of the prisons crisis says building more jails is not the answer and a more "strategic" ...

Los Angeles County officials say they have cut inmate numbers by 14% over the past year, yet jails still operate at up to 145 ...

County officials say they have cut inmate numbers by 14% over the past year, yet jails still operate at up to 145% capacity.

Holdren faces up to 30 years in prison and a $250,000 fine ... cited such complaints as a lack of access to water and food at the facility, as well as overcrowding and fights that were allowed to ...

In 2014, California voters approved Proposition 47, which reduced certain nonviolent crimes from felonies to misdemeanors ...

Californians voted down Proposition 6, a ballot measure that eliminates the state’s constitutional provision that allows ...

The measure would have amended the state’s constitution to repeal language that allows involuntary servitude as a form of ...

"All the people in prison that I know want to work. We just want to do it on our own terms," writes Steve Brooks.

Ecuador’s prisons have become among the deadliest in Latin America as overcrowding, corruption and weak state ... to legalize recreational marijuana in Florida failed Tuesday and California voters ...

California lawmakers agreed to put Proposition 6 on the ballot at the urging of criminal justice advocates. Since 2018, at ...

In less than 15 minutes, Michael Mariscal validated why a team of officials at Cal Poly Humboldt have spent more than three ...

A fight among inmates in Ecuador’s largest and most dangerous prison left 15 dead and 14 wounded, authorities said Tuesday, ...