The mother of a teenage bicyclist killed in a hit-and-run crash says she is struggling to understand how the woman convicted in her son’s death could be released from prison years earlier than ...

Cherie Lynnette Townsend received a sentence of 26 years to life for the first-degree murder of Susan Leeds at a Rolling Hills Estates shopping mall.

Los Angeles’ rampant crime issues trace back to a tiny fraction of criminals, but jam-packed jails and soft laws are leading ...

A woman who was convicted of fatally stabbing a retired nurse in a parking garage at a Rolling Hills Estates mall was ...

Trump administration officials urge California's Newsom not to release 33,000 criminal immigrants without notifying ICE for ...

An associate of the Mexican Mafia prison gang was sentenced for participating in an attack on a fellow Orange County jail ...

SACRAMENTO—Protecting crime victims’ rights by ensuring they receive timely notifications about an offender’s release, parole hearings, escapes, or special parole conditions is the goal of ...

Women hoping to visit their loved ones at New York prisons are being turned away after scanners pick up what they say are ...

On Thursday, NewsCenter 5's Ed Harding took a tour of the infamous Alcatraz Island, a small island that was once a fort, a ...

Six people incarcerated in San Francisco’s County Jail No. 2 said that perhaps hundreds of detainees had limited hot water in ...

This week, authorities have also arrested three guards and a prison nurse, but haven't said if they are connected to the ...

Three inmates at California State Prison in the Antelope Valley have been placed in restrictive housing after a fourth inmate ...