A man sentenced to death for the 1980 rape and murder of a Seal Beach woman died in prison on Monday, Dec. 22 at the age of ...

Despite fighting on the front lines of wildfires across the state, thousands of incarcerated California firefighters made just a few dollars a day, but that changed ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2025 announced the closure of another prison, a shutdown that's possible because the state is ...

A $1 million overhaul created a secure area that centralizes care and frees up deputies to return more quickly to the jails.

The family of Karim Talib, an 82-year-old man with dementia who died this year in the San Diego Central Jail, says in a new ...

For the first time, a Christmas Day Mass was held inside the Century Regional Detention Facility, bringing a message of hope ...

Briana Fair, a mental health clinician with the San Mateo Police Department, received a dozen voicemails from the same distressed caller over a single weekend this month.

Female inmates at the Los Angeles County jail celebrated Christmas Day mass with LA County Sheriff Robert Luna and Archbishop ...

The change has brought hope to some who fear dying in prison, while others worry it won't save them from such a fate.

KAMIALI ABDULSALAM, Kami for short, has already been in the kitchen for several hours baking a batch of 100 sugar cookies when he pulls out chilled dough ...