Newsom’s past actions have made it clear he deplores capital punishment as deeply as many civil rights advocates,” writes ...

I feel like I can start recovering now,’ Manuel Mukes’ mother says after gang member Daniel Keith Bowman is sentenced.

On Jan. 17, 2006, California carried out what would turn out to be the last execution in the Golden State in the next two ...

It was actually pretty common to see 'wholesome' moments. We had a prisoner perform CPR on a guard having a heart attack, and ...

When two-time Sac State grad James L'Etoile retired after decades working in law enforcement, he launched a whole new career ...

POLITICAL REPRESENTATION HAS BEEN A STAPLE of the California prison system for more than 40 years. Like citizens in the free ...

At the Southern Maine Women's Reentry Center, a minimum security prison in Windham, inmates have a chance to improve their futures. An all-time classic Ole Miss-Georgia Sugar Bowl ended in the most ...

On January 1, 1958, Johnny Cash walked through the gates of San Quentin State Prison and performed for inmates.

Maryland State Police are investigating the death of an inmate at the North Branch Correctional Institution in Cumberland, authorities said Tuesday. The inmate, identified as Jordan Polston, 32, was ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — More female inmates joined a federal lawsuit to separate transgender inmates from female inmates at a Texas special needs women’s prison, lodging additional allegations of sexual ...

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A man from Tulare currently serving time in San Quentin Prison for stabbing two victims in an alley was denied parole, the Tulare County District Attorney’s Office ...