A brawl broke out between nearly a dozen inmates at the Lake County Jail in Waukegan in late January, causing several of them to get injured and battery charges to be filed against them.

Nine men are charged in connection with a fatal stabbing at the prison, which the Trump administration has nicknamed the 'Speedway Slammer.' ...

A Miami-Dade corrections officer was charged Friday after video surfaced that appears to show him punching and beating an inmate inside a county jail. The footage, recorded inside the facility and ...

Sacramento County's district attorney and sheriff are pushing back against the parole board's decision to grant early release to Gregory Vogelsang, a 57-year-old convicted child predator, under the ...

A conversation with Paul Bocanegra is awash in cognitive dissonance. How, I wonder, could the congenial middle-aged man sitting across from me at a coffee shop, apologizing profusely for being a few ...

The incident happened around 10:15 a.m. March 9 inside a cell block at the prison, also known as New Folsom. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials said Jon C. Blaylock, 56, ...

A correctional officer was injured Monday morning in an alleged attack by an incarcerated person at California State Prison, Sacramento, according to the California Department of Corrections and ...

So when Gov. Jerry Brown had started letting lifers out before leaving office, my mother believed she had a real chance to ...

Joseph Mendoza, 36, was stabbed nearly 180 times and died at the Salinas Valley State Prison. Someone on staff captured video of the stabbing and leaked it where it appeared on social media, according ...