Some California policymakers and prison officials contend that offering more single-occupancy cells might serve the best ...

Throughout California prisons, outdoor showers were condemned, water hoses in kitchen areas discontinued, and garbage disposal usage ceased. Numerous drinking fountains were turned off, and ice ...

The banned book is “What Kind of Bird Can’t Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection,” by Dorsey Nunn and co-author Lee ...

She adds that the pseudonymity cloak of the digital world makes it possible for people to hide their faces while hurling ...

Danny Trejo's hopeful message comes a few months after he shut down crazy rumors of his death, which were escalated by his ...

Some of the red ink in California’s budget deficit is coming from unplanned spending in state prisons, according to a new ...

A federal judge tossed out separate criminal charges against the former F.B.I. director James Comey and New York’s attorney ...

The San Quentin Giants’ opponents are impressed. But what about the parole board that decides the players’ fate?

FIRST ON FOX — Two federal inmates previously on death row — one a crooked New Orleans cop, the other behind a multi-state killing spree — have been transferred to a notorious "supermax" prison in ...

A book by two authors, including a former prison lifer, details a hospice program developed for dying inmates.

SAN DIEGO — Authorities Thursday publicly identified an inmate who died of as-yet undetermined causes last weekend at San Diego Central Jail. Deputies performing routine rounds found Brandon Pleffner, ...