California legislators came together on Monday to announce bipartisan legislation to strengthen penalties for looting and ...

Domestic violence survivors sometimes lack protections when a convicted abuser is released from prison. A proposal by a San ...

Lawyers for 25,000 people incarcerated in Arizona have asked a judge to take over health care operations in state-run prisons ...

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco last week released a video (see below) to clarify that his deputies "have not, are not, and will not engage in any type of immigration enforcement" and that he is ...

At 21 years old, Yehudah Pryce was a gang member facing 24 years in a maximum security California state prison for armed robbery. At 42 years old, Pryce will fly from the Los Angeles area to ...

Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin coauthored proposed legislation that aims to strengthen laws on looting, other matters during fires and other emergencies.

A California teen who called in more than 375 swatting and threat calls around the country, including Florida, was sentenced to four years in prison.

A Lancaster teen was sentenced to four years in prison after making more than 375 hoax calls. Authorities said he was also a ...

Flames from the Hughes fire came within a mile of the Castaic jails before firefighters pushed them back. Inmate advocates ...

Raymond Lee Oyler set a fire that killed five firefighters in 2006. The California Supreme Court will decide if he remains on death row, writes Robin Epley of The Sacramento Bee.

Michel Serrano, aka "Cubano," is charged with conspiracy to defraud and transportation of stolen vehicles across state lines. He faces 10 years.