An inmate threatened to stab the employee with a 'shank,' a homemade knife, according to the employee's statement in an ...

A defendant who was accused of killing a man found inside an RV parked in Golden's Woolly Mammoth Park-N-Ride in 2023 has been sentenced to life in prison.

Many people in California prisons and jails work for less than $1 an hour. Lawmakers are advancing two bills that could lead ...

Jorge Ibarra used anonymous messaging apps to barrage the women with hundreds of violent, sexually explicit threats.

Prison officials make a radical decision after they lose control over part of the jail at the center of the hit new podcast, ...

Lawmakers continued negotiating behind closed doors on major budget bills to fund human services, education, transportation ...

In 2023, the bill faced opposition for what opponents said was too large of a price tag for a single recipient: Tennessee-based prison company CoreCivic. On the Senate floor that year, former Sen.

Joe Allbaugh's extensive experience couldn't help the deadly OK County jail, he said, for lack of leadership among OKC and ...

Some measures that made it through before midnight dealt with jail bonds, an unconstitutional ban on gay sex, and the ...

A triple murder at a state prison in Tucson prompted a probe from two lawmakers and reinvigorated the conversation around the ...

Robert A. Esquilin-Ortiz agreed to sentence of 35-70 years after pleading guilty to fatally shooting Quran Sims, who had a relationship with his wife.

A couple who pinned a woman to the floor and raped her have been jailed. Anthony Preston, 22, and Nicole Rickatson, 27, "took ...