Joseph Paul DeMarco is removed from Sacramento Superior Court after being sentenced to life without parole on Friday for the ...

California Republicans are increasingly pushing Democrats on child sex crimes bills. The supermajority is growing more ...

Prison staff reportedly used physical force to pin Christopher Leong, 35, to the ground after he charged and hit them — then ...

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

By Ana Kasparian, RealClearInvestigationsMay 1, 2025 Smiley Martin should have been behind bars. A career criminal with a ...

Republicans in the California Assembly on Thursday will try to force a vote that could revive a Democrat's proposal to make it an automatic felony to purchase a 16 or 17-year-old for sex.

A proposed bill aimed at altering punishments for certain defendants in California hit a roadblock Tuesday after the state's Assembly Public Safety Committee voted against advancing it.

MAJOR FIRM LAUNCH — Rebecca Prozan, a veteran Googler and alum to VP Kamala Harris, launched a new company Tuesday. Her ...

The death of an L.A. County inmate marks the 13th suspected homicide in state prisons this year as violence surges despite a ...

Special to The OBSERVER SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California has halted a court-ordered medical parole program, opting ...

Prison officials are investigating an assault on an officer at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano. Early Saturday evening, a prisoner stabbed an officer with “an improvised weapon” as the incarcerated ...