In May 1996, 19-year-old Kristin Smart vanished after attending a party at California Polytechnic State University. She was last seen walking with fellow student Paul Flores, who later became the ...

ICE began sending immigrants to a new California detention center in small town in August. Since then, it has been inundated ...

Stanford Chatfield worked for decades as a prisoner, making 28 cents an hour. Now he's out and supports himself with tours at Alcatraz. He says people value his lived experience.

A lawsuit accused two Inglewood Police Department officers and the Los Angeles District Attorney investigator at the time of ...

OAKLAND – An East Bay resident was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 20 years in prison for committing a series of arsons and ...

Maurice Hastings, 70, who spent 38 years in prison before being found factually innocent, accepted a $25-million settlement ...

Settlement marks California’s largest wrongful conviction payout as man says ‘no amount of money could ever restore 38 years of my life that were stolen from me’ - Anadolu Ajansı ...

CRC is unsafe and outdated, with an estimated $1.1 billion-plus in needed repairs, a history of American with Disabilities Act violations and extreme heat,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

"I've been living in the real world," Calderon says in a new ad featuring his wife and kids. Calderon left the Legislature to ...

A former Tennessee House speaker has received a three-year prison sentence over a scheme with a onetime aide to win ...