At first glance, it looks like a standard art lesson — an instructor giving guidance, a student trying new brush strokes, and ...

California adopted major sentencing changes under Govs. Gavin Newsom and Jerry Brown. A new report provides the first ...

A man with a lengthy criminal history has been charged with the 1973 killing of a woman in Connecticut, a few years after ...

A 27-year-old California State Prison, Solano inmate was stabbed with an “improvised weapon” and died Wednesday and two other inmates are now under investigation, state prison officials said.

The drugs were found after three suspicious packages arrived at a FedEx facility in Rochester, federal prosecutors said.

A federal jury has deadlocked for the second time in a trial of a former correctional officer charged with sexually abusing ...

Books are heavily restricted behind bars, including some of the books that officials have fought for students to access.

Maurice Hastings spent 38 years in prison; now he has won $25 million in the largest wrongful conviction settlement in ...

Death row inmates Derrick Dearman and Jamie Mills were executed last year with traces of meth in their bodies, while Carey Grayson and Kenneth Smith had synthetic drugs in theirs.

California's "second look" resentencing reforms have resulted in low rates of reoffending and have saved the state money, ...