The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has been called to account by state lawmakers after settling a $1 ...

Following a $1.9 million settlement in a use-of-force case, state lawmakers demand answers from corrections officials.

Prisons should not serve as assisted living facilities. Incarcerating people who have aged out of crime is morally ...

Something happened that was not supposed to happen,” said the attorney who represents the 13 women who sued California prison ...

The decision comes against the backdrop of mounting allegations of “rape, voyeurism, and a pervasive climate of sexual ...

Hundreds of elderly women in California prisons remain in inhumane and costly conditions due to inadequate consideration by ...

California has agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle claims by 13 women who say they were violently attacked by staff at the Central California Women’s Facility after reporting sexual abuse. The ...

California lawmakers are pressing prison officials over a 2024 pepper spray assault at the state’s largest women’s prison, as Louisiana advances a prison data transparency bill and multiple states ...

The woman at the center of Harvey Weinstein ‘s repeatedly retried rape case testified — for the third time — Tuesday that the ...

Those arrested, alleged members and associates of the Mexican Mafia, were accused in a number of crimes, including kidnapping ...

A woman kidnapped outside her Northern California home managed to escape her assailant by hiding in the bathroom of a gas ...

Nelcy Escorcia, center, holds a sign with a message reading in Spanish; “Thinking differently isn’t a crime; isolating and ...