A suspected killer remains at-large after he was mistakenly released from jail in California, the Contra Costa County Sheriff ...

California’s top prisons official has ordered almost 3,500 inmates released early, according to a filing Tuesday in federal court, to thin populations in the overcrowded system in hopes of preventing ...

On Nov. 10 1936, San Mateo County police made a public announcement that seemed too audacious to be true: A former Alcatraz inmate had simply walked out the front door of the county jail — and ...

A California jury found that Beth Fischgrund was wrongfully terminated and defamed after she reported an inmate’s violent ...

An inmate who walked away earlier this week from a California prison fire camp was apprehended by authorities on Thursday.

California must push forward in a court-mandated project to reduce their overcrowded prison population to 137.5 percent capacity by the end of the year, according to a Friday ruling by the Supreme ...

Jason Brannigan, 48, allegedly attacked the officers. Just five days after he was denied parole in December 2024, he ...