In rejecting Proposition 6, voters kept a constitutional provision outlawing slavery except "to punish crime." Gov. Gavin ...

"All the people in prison that I know want to work. We just want to do it on our own terms," writes Steve Brooks.

California in the 1970s cleaned up its constitution to remove any reference to slavery. Yes, slavery was abolished in 1865 ...

A Californian was sentenced to prison for acting as an unregistered agent of China and offering bribes, targeting Falun Gong ...

A Northern California man was sentenced Tuesday to two years and 11 months in prison for seeking more than $13.4 million in COVID-19 relief funds and successfully obtaining nearly $2 million, federal ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says a clemency decision for convicted murderers Erik and Lyle Menendez is on hold until Los ...

A California man was sentenced to 20 months in prison on Tuesday for acting as an illegal agent of China and bribing an Internal Revenue Service agent, the Department of Justice said in a statement.

A coalition of formerly and currently incarcerated women are fighting to end women’s incarceration in California altogether.

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

A California man convicted of stabbing to death a gay University of Pennsylvania student in an act of hate was sentenced ...

California has rejected a ballot measure that would have amended the state constitution to ban forced prison labor.

Californians voted down Proposition 6, a ballot measure that eliminates the state’s constitutional provision that allows ...