Across the U.S., tough-on-crime policies are surging again, despite research showing they do little to reduce crime, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Attorneys for Lyle and Erik Menendez said Wednesday that California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered the ...

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnian Serb nationalist leader Milorad Dodik was sentenced to one year in prison on Wednesday and ...

California lawmakers are trying to make sure there's enough money to pay the costs of Prop. 36, which reinstated felony ...

A freshman Democratic congressman is introducing a bill to protect the jobs of veterans working for the government amid mass ...

A former Tennessee state senator has reported to federal prison after he pleaded guilty in 2022 to an illegal campaign ...

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

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

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

A San Diego inmate is accused of attacking and killing a fellow prisoner Sunday in a Sacramento prison, state corrections ...

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