Sacramento County's jail expansion project could be put on pause after a third-party firm looked at the design plan.

Amid high-profile proposals to make it easier for long-serving inmates to seek sentence reductions and to make work safer for parole agents are two largely overlooked efforts that supporters say are ...

The son of a Chinese journalist accused of espionage is calling for his father to be released from his seven-year prison ...

Ramirez’s plea brings to an end one of the most frustrating cold cases that had crossed the desk of nearly every Sunnyvale ...

Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of Theranos and partner of San Diego-based Evans Hotels’ heir William “Billy” Evans, ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says that Yates and Kennedy have been placed into restricted ...

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

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., enjoined Trump's order requiring trans-identified inmates to be moved to male-only prisons, citing Eighth Amendment grounds.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has launched a homicide investigation following the death ...

A San Diego inmate is accused of attacking and killing a fellow prisoner Sunday in a Sacramento prison, state corrections officials said. Tyler Yates, 30, and Jake Kennedy, 32, are accused of using ...