HUNDREDS OF INCARCERATED PEOPLE at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center are bracing themselves for unexpected transfers to other ...

THEIR deadly urges might appear to make them kindred spirits, but behind bars, the world’s most despised serial killers have ...

It was "dead time." In the adult system, people awaiting trial get credit for "time served," with any months that they spend ...

Imperial County continues to experience bad news, some of it real, some of it conjecture. Governor Gavin Newsom campaigned in 2018 on a platform to close prisons and has closed ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man doing time for trying to kill his mother was convicted Wednesday of strangling his cellmate to death in a hate crime.

A central California biochemist convicted of killing her estranged husband by knocking him out and stuffing him into a vat of acid has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of ...

Corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton said that at the time of Atkins' death, she had been in prison longer than any woman currently incarcerated in California. Atkins' final chance at freedom ...

H.H. Holmes is believed to be the United States’ first known serial killer. In 1886, Holmes, whose original name was Herman Mudgett, took a job as a pharmacist in Chicago. At this point, he changed ...