San Quentin Rehabilitation Center has a long history as one of the state's toughest correctional facilities. But, on Friday, ...

Ortega, one of the smuggling ring's organizers, got two life sentences, while Felipe Orduna-Torres got 83 years.

A Sacramento judge on Friday formally imposed the death penalty for Adel Ramos, who pleaded guilty to the ambush killing of ...

Adel Ramos was given a death penalty sentence for the killing of Sacramento police officer Tara O'Sullivan​ in June 2019, the ...

The two men were the first of several defendants to be sentenced in the nation's deadliest human smuggling attempt across the U.S.-Mexico border.

Two smugglers convicted in the deaths of 53 migrants in a sweltering truck in Texas will spend the rest of their lives in ...

THE CLOCK IS TICKING. Gov. Gavin Newsom still has a year and a half left in office, but advocates are starting their call now for him to commute, or reduce, all death sentences in ...

By age 46, Bob Williams had spent more than half his life in isolation, waiting to die on San Quentin's death row.

One California re-entry program boasts a 92 percent success rate in helping former prisoners find jobs or continue schooling ...

The California production community will be keeping a close eye on the state Capitol on Friday as lawmakers are set to seal ...

AFTER dancing with her father inside of San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, Tiara Embrey has died in a head-on traffic ...

A former police officer who killed two Danville residents in separate police shootings was released early from prison this ...