Behind the scenes, these TV personalities faced trouble with the law ranging from tax evasion to domestic battery ...

Assemblymember Damon Connolly and San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins have announced a bill intended to improve ...

Deputies arrived to find the man on the floor of the cell after the apparent attack, the Sheriff’s Office said.

Right now in the US, the total population held in prison is nearly 2 million people, over 20 percent of the world's prisoners ...

Nevada prosecutors have filed multiple charges against 20 defendants over the incident, including first-degree murder and attempted murder.

Convicted wife killer Scott Peterson was attacked in a California prison while playing pickleball. That's according to TMZ, ...

Authorities are investigating after an inmate died following a reported fight at the Sacramento County Main Jail.

The Sacramento County Main Jail was on lockdown after an inmate died following a fight inside of his cell, the sheriff's office told KCRA 3.

The bill, as it currently stands, would require incarcerated individual hand crew members from county jails to be paid an ...

Critics of Prop. 36 say the law makes simple drug possession a felony, dramatically increasing costs to taxpayers for ...

A proposal took an early step in the California Assembly Public Safety Committee that would require incarcerated firefighters ...

A proposed California bill could increase pay for inmate firefighters housed in county jails and state prisons. Assembly Bill 247, if approved, would require jail inmates assigned to work active ...