After 35 years of failing reports and climbing suicide rates, a federal judge is appointing an outsider to propose fixes for mental health care in California prisons.

A judge has ordered the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer two transgender women inmates back to women’s prisons after they had been sent to men’s facilities.

A bicyclist has died after being hit by a vehicle on Tuesday evening in Sacramento, police said. According to the Sacramento Police Department, officers responded to the crash shortly after 7:45 p.m.

Nigeria’s leader declared an emergency in oil-rich Rivers state and suspended its governor and lawmakers over a political crisis and vandalism to pipelines that contribute to the country’s status as ...

The Montana Department of Corrections (DOC) is considering Boulder, and three other communities, for the site of a potential ...

One woman was tutoring other former inmates in a post-prison program, helping them get better grades when a staff member urged her into another program that would help her with her own education.

The inmate was walking in a yard at Salinas Valley State Prison on March 23, 2023, when he approached a licensed vocational ...

(KGO) -- On Saturday, hundreds rallied in Dublin near a former women's federal prison with a notorious ... physical abuse," said Susan Beaty from California Collaborative For Immigration Justice.

One by one, members of the Kansas State women’s basketball team took turns thanking fans after they played a pair of home games in the NCAA Tournament last March. The No. 4 seed Wildcats were ...

An Evanston man who was exonerated last year after spending 24 years in prison for a 1996 murder is ... and a former prosecutor in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office.

A previously homeless man has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for an unprovoked racially ... Lindsey eventually fled the state after the attack made headlines.