A Los Banos man was sentenced to 10 years in state prison for raping a young relative in 2022, according to Monterey County prosecutors. Leonardo Pena, 49, was convicted of rape of a minor over age 14 ...

KCRA THREE INVESTIGATES HAS BEEN CLOSELY FOLLOWING THE MURDER OF A WOMAN VISITING HER HUSBAND AT MULE CREEK STATE PRISON BACK ...

Thomas is one of two women who authorities said were killed last year during conjugal visits with their husbands at the ...

An inmate charged with murdering his wife during a conjugal visit at Mule Creek State Prison pleaded not guilty Friday.

Female legislators proposed a slate of bills aimed at prison reform, including offering survivors of sexual violence ...

Michael Lerma, 68, was convicted of racketeering and murder in a trial that showed how he called the shots for gangs in his ...

Solitary confinement can cause severe psychological impacts and the U.N. considers it torture. Yet prolonged isolation ...

At 18, Jack Morris was convicted of murdering a man in South Los Angeles and sent to prison for life. It was 1979, and ...

SACRAMENTO—The Trump administration has for the fourth time in history invoked the war-time Alien Enemies Act of 1798 even ...

A federal judge in Sacramento has put control of California prisons' mental ... who suffered from a lack of psychiatric services at Pelican State Prison. The defendant is Gov.

The 640-acre facility is the largest women’s prison in California, and holds more than 2,000 women, nonbinary and transgender people. In total, women make up just 4% of the state's prison ...