A three-year effort to encourage California prosecutors to reconsider the sentences given to some people in state prison has resulted in a modest number of people being resentenced, but improvements ...

Under new bill AB 15, the California prison system would be unable to hold someone in custody based off a request from ICE.

Four members of a drug-trafficking organization — including a Reading man — that mailed millions of dollars worth of methamphetamine and cocaine to and distributed the drugs in eastern Pennsylvania ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will veto a bill that would block his state’s prison system from cooperating with ICE.

A California woman was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison after she was arrested on a weapons charge and found with heroin-filled Bibles addressed to inmates in state prisons.

In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would ...

An incarcerated person was injured in a fight at the Folsom State Prison, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said.

Earth from space: A mysterious 'black hole' in Pacific Ocean that sparked wild rumors online Elephant seals return to ...

Local Republican politicians trying to promote a change in state immigration law, were drowned out by the chants of ...

Heroin hidden in two Bibles found on a California woman were destined to be delivered to two prisons, the Justice Department said Friday.

Non-convicted detainees in a California jail can continue to allege that private prison contractor Aramark Correctional ...

TODAY HE WILL NOT BLOCK CALIFORNIA’S PRISON SYSTEM FROM COOPERATING WITH ICE. KCRA THREE CAPITOL CORRESPONDENT ASHLEY ZAVALA JOINS US NOW IN THE STUDIO. SO, ASHLEY, WHAT PROMPTED THE GOVERNOR TO ...