The decree promises ongoing trauma-related health care for the affected inmates and oversight to prevent future abuse.

A judge has given final approval to a legal settlement that subjects the federal Bureau of Prisons to independent monitoring ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials are investigating the death of an inmate in Sacramento as a homicide. At 1:21 p.m. on Feb. 23, officers ...

A Montana man faces years in prison at his Wednesday sentencing for threatening to assault former House Speaker Kevin ...

California lawmakers in the State Senate on Tuesday began the process of figuring out how to fund and fully implement ...

A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy is among the 18 people indicted by a grand jury this week in a “sophisticated” drug smuggling operation within the County jail ...

RIVERSIDE — A 25-year-old motorist who killed a man in a fiery wreck while the defendant was driving under the influence on ...

Two inmates at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi have been sentenced to additional prison time for their ...

Sacramento County's jail expansion project could be put on pause after a third-party firm looked at the design plan.

Two state prison inmates, including one sentenced for a San Diego County burglary and assault, are suspected of killing a ...

An inmate at California State Prison, Sacramento died in a homicide Sunday after two other inmates attacked him in an exercise yard, according to the California Department of Corrections and ...

A homicide investigation is underway after an inmate at California State Prison, Sacramento was allegedly fatally attacked by ...