Instead of closing another prison, the Newsom administration is hoping to cut prison spending by reducing costs associated ...

California needs to close more state prisons. Reviewing Newsom’s May Revision makes that impossible to ignore. The May Revision, Newsom’s annual revised budget proposal, gives ...

A recent analysis by the Prison Policy Initiative contends that money bail offers minimal public safety protection and frequently results in unconstitutional pretrial detention, highlighting a ...

Condemned murderer and serial rapist Richard Raymond Ramirez was serving a death sentence for the 1983 slaying of 22-year-old ...

But debates about the fiscal impacts of prisons miss the bigger picture issue: California’s continued high crime levels, most ...

Arraignment in an Avenal tablet case has spurred a congressional probe and fresh questions about monitoring and vendor contracts.

Business associations in the state say some of the legislative tactics could affect federal contractors outside of immigration.

Ramirez, who was sentenced to death for the 1983 rape and murder of a 22-year-old bank teller in Garden Grove, died in prison ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rapper Tory Lanez has sued the California prison system, saying he never should have been housed with a fellow inmate who stabbed him 16 times last year. Lanez, 33, whose legal name ...