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

David Leonardo, 39, was originally sentenced to 15 years to life for killing Priscilla Rose Hernandez in 2011.

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

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

The death of Jose Cruz was not related to Wednesday’s stabbing deaths of two other inmates at the High Desert State Prison in ...

The true crime genre, which mines real-life horrors for entertainment, has looked to the North Bay many times over the years.

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.

California prison officials are investigating the killing of a Livermore man serving time in Kern Valley State Prison. Guards ...

Serial "Pillowcase Rapist" expected to be released into a rural community despite admission to rape of over 100 women.

A man who intentionally drove a pickup truck off Sunset Cliffs into the ocean with his twin toddlers inside was sentenced ...

A Livermore man who was convicted of a 2012 murder died in prison Thursday after an apparent attack with an inmate-manufactured weapon, prison officials ...