L.A. County's supervisors called on the Sheriff's Department to implement new health and safety measures after 10 inmate ...

Under elderly parole, inmates 50 or older who served 20 years or more could be eligible for a parole hearing — regardless of ...

Officials at California State Prison, Sacramento, are investigating the death of John Cisneros as a homicide involving his ...

Two inmates in a California state prison are being investigated for the alleged murder of a third inmate in one of the facility’s yards on Sunday, officials with the California Department of ...

State prison officials are investigating the death of inmate John Cisneros as a homicide at California State Prison ...

A federal jury has found Riverside County sheriff’s deputies and jail medical staff were not negligent in the death of a ...

Convicted Sacramento child molester David Allen Funston has been granted parole from his life sentences under California's Elderly Parole Program.

David Allen Funston, a convicted child predator, remains in custody after Placer County issued a new arrest warrant, halting ...

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. – Authorities in California say six inmates, including a man charged with murder, used a “homemade rope” to escape a jail over the weekend. The Merced County Sheriff’s Office ...

Inmate firefighters in California will receive higher pay and the state will make permanent firefighting camps that train and educate young offenders under two laws signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Up to 7,000 sick California inmates must be transferred to prisons with access to better medical care, a court-appointed receiver said in a court filing Tuesday. Receiver Clark Kelso is in charge of ...

Inmate firefighters in California will receive higher pay and the state will make permanent firefighting camps that train and educate young offenders under two laws signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.