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 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.

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

A new soon-to-open jail in Orange County will offer prisoners more positive opportunities and visitors a new way of ...

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

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

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

The measure aims to make prison labor voluntary, following the lead of states across the country that have banned slavery in ...