The move by the Southern California city, the second most populated city in the U.S. after New York City, follows ...

A new soon-to-open jail in Orange County will offer prisoners more rehabilitation and education opportunities and visitors a ...

Organizers wanted to ban the use of solitary confinement against pregnant Californians. They got something else entirely.

Gov. Gavin Newsom decided to defer the Menendez brothers' clemency decision to incoming District Attorney Nathan Hochman.

A correctional officer at Mule Creek State Prison was allegedly attacked by an inmate on Thursday, officials say.

A guard at a California prison was attacked by an inmate Thursday evening in what officials are investigating as an attempted ...

He’ll get off to a quick stary by ending the ban on adding gang- and gun-enhancement charges to crimes and other Gascón ...

Guard was escorting the convicted murderer back to his cell when the inmate turned on him, prison officials said.

The biggest funder in support of Prop 36 was Walmart, according to a Los Angeles Times investigation tracking the money on ...

The incoming district attorney for Los Angeles County, Nathan Hochman, says in an interview with The Associated Press that ...

Photo: Peter Merts C-Note’s ‘Redemption in Our State of Blues’ Meanwhile, in the California State Prison Los Angeles County in Lancaster, another prison theater revolution was quietly unfolding.

Oct 31 (Reuters) - Los Angeles County has sued beverage makers PepsiCo ... The case marks the latest in a string of lawsuits by U.S. state and local governments and environmental advocates ...