Proposition 36 won't end homelessness or crime waves. It will only refill prisons, push more people to the streets and erase ...

A judge sentenced a Northern California woman to nine years in prison on Tuesday for fraudulently obtaining more than $1 ...

Worries about retail theft and fentanyl deaths shaped a November ballot measure that would toughen some criminal penalties.

California’s prisoners should not be subjected to abuse by their jailers. But inmates should not be legally empowered to dictate what chores they’re willing to do while behind bars.

A Livermore man serving life in prison for a 2012 murder in a dispute over money and a romantic rivalry was found fatally wounded in his cell, corrections officials said Friday.

The economic reality of the relationship may change from punisher and punished to employer and employee, conferring at least ...

The suspect, 55-year-old Scott Lowder, was immediately detained following the alleged stabbing of 36-year-old Steve Gonzalez.

A Southern California man was sentenced to 152 years in prison for raping young girls. Omar Cruz-Hernandez, 39, of Oxnard, ...

Among the issues voters will be asked this November will be to rule on whether prisoners should continue to be forced to work ...

A California woman who pleaded no contest in the case regarding the death of her infant child is facing time behind bars.

A Yuba County father on Monday was sentenced to 12 years and four months in prison for making criminal threats against his ...

A Livermore man serving life in prison for a 2012 murder in a dispute over money and a romantic rivalry was found fatally wounded in his cell, corrections officials said Friday.