The Bay Area man was killed last week in a California prison where he'd been serving a life sentence for murdering a close ...

The state spends $15 billion a year on the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, with the cost of ...

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

Californians will decide the fate of Proposition 36, a measure that seeks to increase punishments for some theft and drug ...

The state spends $15 billion a year on the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, with the cost of incarcerating an inmate topping $132,000 a year. We're all for cutting spending ...

We need restorative justice initiatives that focus on family reunification in rehabilitation programs, investment in reentry ...

Michael Montalvo has served 37 years in U.S. federal prison for leading a criminal enterprise that sold tens of millions of ...

The Menendez Brothers murders made Erik and Lyle Menendez household names — and also led them to their respective wives, ...

A teenage girl wrote ‘it’s okay to be evil’ in a chilling diary entry before killing her mom. She will spend the rest of her ...

Newsweek speaks with drug recovery advocate Bob Forrest and journalist Diane Dimond about the dangerous relationship between celebrities and doctors.

Through Friday, 52 witnesses have testified for the prosecution over 21 days of testimony in the retrial of former DEA agent ...

The Illinois Department of Corrections has spent September moving hundreds of inmates from Stateville Correctional Center in ...