Stanford's Three Strikes Project and the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund aims to overturn 18 prison sentences in California using ...

Gabriel "Snoop" Roberson, who has served decades in prison for a 1994 Antioch shooting, reached a plea agreement overturning ...

A federal jury today returned guilty verdicts against five members of the transnational criminal organization Mara ...

Federal prosecutors have indicted nine suspected Oakland gang members on a variety of criminal charges, including murder and racketeering conspiracy.

Judge Hector Ramon released murder suspect Vicente Aguilera without bail in California, sparking criticism from prosecutors ...

California prison officials are investigating a riot involving about 20 inmates that broke out Monday morning at California ...

California's mental health diversion law has gone beyond the gates of its original intent, allowing violent criminals to ...

Officials said the killings involved victims who were strangled, shot, stabbed with knives or a machete, beaten with a ...

Daniel Saldaña, who was released in 2023, was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to 45 years in prison even though none of the victims identified him at trial as one of the shooters.

An Avenal State Prison inmate already serving multiple life sentences at a Long Beach, California, prison for murder and ...