“Pride Industries is thrilled with the recent decision by the State Personnel Board to extend our contract at the California ...

In a warehouse-style room at the Central California Women's Facility outside Chowchilla, Jesse Vasquez stood before a group of very attentive women in prison-issue denims. They were prospective ...

The Marshall Project spotlights some of the incarcerated firefighters doing one of the riskiest, lowest-paying, but ...

A woman who drove drunk and caused a freeway crash in Carlsbad last year that killed a married couple from Northern California was sentenced Friday to nearly a dozen years in state prison.

The brothers who gunned down their parents in 1989 have a few glimmers of hope in what has become a protracted process to see ...

A woman who drove drunk and caused a crash in Carlsbad that killed a couple was sentenced Friday to nearly a dozen years in prison.

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Dennis “D.J.” Hernandez, the brother of former NFL star Aaron Hernandez, was sentenced to time served on Friday for threatening multiple people — including a judge — and alluding to committing a ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and California Correctional Health Care Services, in partnership with the California Department of Human Resources, announce the State ...

CHICO, Calif. - California State Parks officials have the green light to begin examining the destroyed Bidwell Mansion and ...

On Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention, speakers cherry-picked employment numbers to make President Barack Obama’s record on jobs look better than it is and ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state’s suddenly busy death chamber ...