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 ...

The release of former 49er Dana Stubblefield was ordered by a Santa Clara County judge Friday. It comes after an appellate court overturned Stubblefield's rape conviction late last December.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed laws to help safeguard the state's progressive policies from challenges by Republican ...

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 ...

A former Massachusetts state senator has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for scheming to defraud the state Department of Unemployment Assistance and collecting income that he failed to report to ...

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 ...

Court-appointed monitors of Sacramento County jails say a man’s fatal overdose was one of multiple deaths in which deputies ...

Authorities in the South Bay have released the identities of three Santa Clara County jail inmates charged in the murder and torture of another inmate.

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

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