Attorneys for Lyle and Erik Menendez say California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered the state parole board to investigate ...

A judge has given final approval to a legal settlement that subjects the federal Bureau of Prisons to independent monitoring ...

Seven senators, including two from California, wrote to the U.S. Attorney General objecting to a plan that would use federal ...

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 ...

Sens. Alex Padilla, Adam Schiff, and other Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats — including Chair Dick Durbin — wrote to U.S.

California lawmakers are trying to make sure there's enough money to pay the costs of Prop. 36, which reinstated felony sentences and prison time for some repeat theft and drug crimes.

Two inmates on Tuesday were each sentenced to more than a decade of additional time in custody for assaulting another inmate ...

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

Karen Huger, of “Real Housewives of Potomac,” will spend one year behind bars for a DUI conviction after crashing her car in Montgomery County last year.