They left prison gangs, but is that a good thing? Also, Newsom's State of the State speech and more big stories.

The man known as the "NorCal rapist" who terrorized women for 15 years had his nearly 900-year prison sentence reduced due to ...

The Dublin City Council on Tuesday night is poised to pass a resolution that opposes turning the now-closed women's prison – FCI Dublin – into any kind of detention facility in the future. The ...

President Trump announced on Wednesday that he was withdrawing the United States from the bedrock international agreement ...

Evangelina Perez lost count of the number of times her mother, Martha Perez, called her from federal prison, gasping for breath because she had missed dialysis treatments for her kidney failure. At 59 ...

A civilized society protects women and children from men who seek to harm them. Yet under the banner of progress, child ...

Patients at the Central Coast’s Atascadero State Hospital walk the halls in 2006. Due to COVID, patients have at times been confined to their units, but still mingle in bathrooms, the dining hall and ...

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 for another round — which will be cut into the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars to fill vacant medical and mental health positions at prisons and ...

California State Fair will soon bid farewell to scorching days in the triple digits announcing a move to the fall in 2027. The mid-summer fair’s new dates will be Sept. 17-Oct. 3, 2027. The California ...

A unanimous court rejected arguments that the widow of a guard killed during an attempted prison escape could only bring ...

Iowa State women's basketball played just one game in the last week. But boy was it a big one. The Cyclones opened Big 12 Conference play on Dec. 21 with a 79-76 win over Kansas on a 3-pointer by ...