Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled.

They accuse him of ignoring California voters ... he would "wait until the shower, and I'd just peel my own toenails off." At his new prison, inmates can buy their own razors and nail clippers ...

California ministry sponsors compromise bill, arguing that “one community’s safety cannot come at the cost of another’s.” ...

President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a ...

(AP) — Prosecutors have reduced a felony misconduct charge against a former Wisconsin prison ... told an inmate advocate ...

In 2017, Parliament passed Bill C-16, which resulted in trans-identifying inmates with intact male genitalia being allowed to transfer into federal women’s prisons ... being followed to the bathroom ...

Imprisoned 42 years for a murder he didn’t commit, Jimmy Soto was released from Stateville on Dec. 13, 2023. At the age of 62, he began the formidable work of starting his life once again.