Years ago when I visited Pelican Bay State Prison on the northern coast of California, prison staff explained the rules. They gave me a stab vest and a handy piece of information: If I were taken ...

AB 469 seeks to close loopholes and strengthen sentences for looting and fake first responders in disaster zones.

After being caught, Ramirez was convicted of 13 counts of murder, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults, and 14 ...

A woman who drove drunk and caused a freeway crash in Carlsbad last year that killed a married couple from Northern ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed laws to help safeguard the state's progressive policies from challenges by Republican ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and California Correctional Health Care Services, in partnership with the California Department of Human Resources, announce the State ...

In a warehouse-style room at the Central California Women's Facility outside Chowchilla, Jesse Vasquez stood before a group of very attentive women in prison-issue denims. They were prospective ...

The Marshall Project spotlights some of the incarcerated firefighters doing one of the riskiest, lowest-paying, but ...

They were prospective applicants for CCWF’s pioneering new newspaper, put together in a newsroom next door, and Vasquez told ...

“Pride Industries is thrilled with the recent decision by the State Personnel Board to extend our contract at the California ...

These medications are life and death for someone coming out of custody and in that state,” said Mary Taylor, a clinical ...

Imran Shams receives 8-25 year prison sentence for a multi-million dollar health care fraud and must pay $7 million restitution.