An L.A. County judge approved a plan to move roughly 100 juveniles out of troubled Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey, ...

A twice-convicted home invasion robber was granted parole on Tuesday, a decision that Kern County District Attorney Cynthia ...

New records show what happened to some of the former prisoners after state leaders chose to shrink a prison population ...

The move ends nearly 18 months of litigation by one of the five men, who said he was looking forward to the change of scenery.

PARIS (AP) — Anti-organized crime specialist investigators probing a wave of attacks on prisons and prison staff in France are looking at the possible involvement of a notorious drug cartel ...

Bukele built his massive new prison to hold alleged gang members among the 85,000 people arrested under his state of emergency for three years as his administration crushed the country’s ...

Then-new Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled. Years later, inmates say they got a bittersweet new lease on life.

President Trump’s decision to send migrants to a Salvadoran prison has set off a national ... to El Salvador hundreds of people he says are gang members has ignited outrage and approval in ...

LOS ANGELES — A convicted Los Angeles County rapist was allegedly killed by a fellow inmate over the weekend amid a surge of prison violence that has claimed the lives of over a dozen ...