On Sept. 4, the Justice Department announced it had opened an investigation into allegations that correctional officers sexually abused female inmates at two state-run California prisons.
The wife of a California inmate will receive $5.6 million after being sexually violated during a strip search when she tried to visit her husband in prison, her attorneys said Monday. After ...
Worries about retail theft and fentanyl deaths shaped a November ballot measure that would toughen some criminal penalties.
Jarvis Jay Masters, who gained national attention after Oprah Winfrey selected his autobiography for her influential book ...
Are California Prisons Stiffing Inmates on $200 Release Payments? Lawsuit Says They Are John Vaesau was counting on the $200 he was entitled to by law upon leaving Folsom State Prison in June ...
Christina Cardenas was subject to a strip search by prison officials and another strip search by a male doctor who sexually violated her, a lawsuit said.
A Livermore man who was convicted of a 2012 murder died in prison Thursday after an apparent attack with an ...
An inmate at Kern Valley State Prison died Thursday after an apparent attack with an inmate-manufactured weapon, his cellmate ...