There's speculation that California is becoming more conservative after voters approved stricter punishments for some crimes. The changes move it more toward the center politically than the right.

A new Peacock docuseries, “Making Manson,” out Nov. 19, features 20 years of recordings of Charles Manson’s private phone ...

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

A former Oregon inmate has filed a lawsuit, alleging a prison doctor sexually assaulted him during a medical appointment.

Californians rejected a measure that would have raised the state’s minimum wage to $18 an hour. Over two weeks after Election Day, California has counted over 99% of the votes and revealed that a slim ...

Susan Smith was convicted of two counts of murder after she let her vehicle roll into a South Carolina lake with her two sons ...

Over the past two episodes we’ve been hearing about “memory places” at San Quentin: ordinary-seeming spots that become extraordinary through the eyes of people who spent time there. In this extra mini ...

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

Attorneys working for That '70s Show star Danny Masterson tracked down jurors who found him guilty of rape in a move that 'troubled' the judge in the case ...

In March 1983, a year after John Belushi’s death, Cathy Smith was indicted on a count of second-degree murder — a charge ...

"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 ...