The Bay Area man was killed last week in a California prison where he'd been serving a life sentence for murdering a close ...

Former inmates are suing the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, alleging the state agency has illegally ...

San Francisco’s former district attorney is leading a class action lawsuit requiring the state to follow through on a 1973 ...

AKRON, Ohio — A California shipping company owner was sentenced Tuesday to 19 years in federal prison for hauling at least ...

California's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation was accused of withholding release funds and reprimanded by the ...

A class action lawsuit filed against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) alleges that ...

Among the issues voters will be asked this November will be to rule on whether prisoners should continue to be forced to work.

A judge sentenced a Northern California woman to nine years in prison on Tuesday for fraudulently obtaining more than $1 million in unemployment benefits during the height of the COVID pandemic.

The crime that put me in prison was a serious one. As a young man, I ran with gangs and was involved with drugs. I participated in activities that today I am not proud of. I make no excuses for my ...

Catastrophic flooding caused by a broken dam brought down the walls of a prison in Nigeria, allowing 281 inmates to escape, ...