A new program using soccer to teach leadership and life skills has launched at the California Institution for Women, aiming ...

Detainees report prison-like conditions inside the California City facility and lack of access to medical care. Advocates are ...

California over the past dozen years enacted a series of criminal justice laws that were meant to give more people an opportunity to be resentenced and thin out the state’s severely overcrowded ...

After years of complaints about hot temperatures inside prison cells, California is finally embarking on a plan to cool some cells. But it’s only a test, and it will only help a fraction of inmates.

Over the course of several years, two women's prisons in California signed at least 150 pregnant women up for permanent sterilization to be performed after they gave birth, without following the ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A federal jury has deadlocked for the second time in a trial of a former correctional officer charged with sexually abusing four inmates at a now-closed federal women’s prison ...

A St. Cloud man has received a 10-year prison term for fatally shooting an 18-year-old sailor on a San Diego street after the ...

William Arnold ‘Billy’ Armendariz III is ‘worth saving,’ said his attorney, who argued for life in prison. The prosecutor said the defendant is ‘evil.’ ...