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 ...

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

Officials in South Carolina have executed Freddie Owens, convicted in the 1997 murder of a convenience store clerk, marking ...

State corrections officials have launched a homicide investigation after a convicted killer from Alameda County died following an incident at a Central Valley prison Thursday evening.

Police have launched a desperate hunt for an escaped inmate from Silverwater Prison who is currently at large in western Sydney.

Five corrections officers have been injured after a group of inmates at the Souza Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster ...

Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper on Thursday called for the California legislature ... allegedly committed by another ...

Combs, 54, was sent to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on Tuesday after pleading not guilty in a case that ...

Officials at San Quentin State Penitentiary are investigating the death of a 70-year-old inmate inside his cell as homicide, ...

POPULATION HIKE: More than a decade after a prison overcrowding crisis, Californians could soon approve a hotly debated ballot measure that could add thousands of inmates by undoing some sentencing ...