The writer was transferred from Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County to San Bruno Jail in San Francisco after being targeted for his journalism exposing the jail's conditions and deaths, and was placed ...

Barbara Rae-Venter never anticipated that her genealogy hobby would lead to the capture of one of California's most notorious ...

Andrew Hall, who joined the San Quentin Fire Department while he was in prison, wants to use a related state law to get his ...

So many politicians turned up that they were split into multiple groups to tour the 3,000-bed detention center in Florida ...

“CDCR and the corrections budget in general has been a black hole, a money pit,” said Brian Kaneda, CURB’s deputy director.

The opening of a new federal detention center in California City has sparked mixed reactions among local residents. The ...

A judge sentenced Matthew Muller to life without parole, compounding other criminal convictions around California.

The power in seeking help is rarely recognized, but there is strength in the choice to transform. At the root of a self-help ...

Kenneth A. Bianchi, one of the two men convicted in the "Hillside Strangler" murders, was recently denied parole in ...

A budget deficit prompted state lawmakers to trim — but not eliminate — funding for a pilot program that will pay for air ...

Bianchi pleaded guilty to five killings in the LA area, committed with his cousin Angelo Buono Jr. He’s still seeking parole ...

California has six privately operated immigration detention centers. Two of these — Golden State Annex in McFarland and Mesa ...