Crime has been a see-saw issue in California for most of the last 40 years. Leniency was the vogue for awhile recently. But ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-tenured death row inmate, filed court documents asking for post-conviction ...

Nine Alameda County sheriff's deputies and a pair of civilian Santa Rita Jail employees are facing charges related to the ...

The outgoing Alameda County District Attorney on Tuesday charged nine sheriff's deputies and two medical employees with the ...

Crime has been a see-saw issue in California for most of the last 40 years. Leniency was the vogue for awhile recently. But now the balance is back to getting tougher, as polls this fall showed ...

Nine Alameda County sheriff's deputies and a pair of civilian Santa Rita Jail employees are facing charges related to the 2021 death of inmate Maurice Monk. Alameda County District Attorney Pamela ...

A former officer at San Quentin prison has been indicted over allegations he planted contraband in a scheme to "discover" it himself, increase his overtime pay and get promoted to sergeant, according ...

The jury of seven women and five men told Judge James Arguelles that they were split on whether Adel Sambrano Ramos should be ...

In 1977, Rodney Alcala was out of prison and living in New York ... And again, the sentence was death. Alcala had been on San Quentin's death row since 1980. Now, with a second conviction and a second ...

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Sacramento police rookie Tara O’Sullivan’s killer — but at what cost?