Jessica Loring was on the phone with her brother when his car was slammed by a stolen SUV driven by a man who has been in and out of prison for 10 years.

After an appellate court overturned the murder conviction in Sierra LaMar’s 2012 disappearance, prosecutors are weighing next steps in a retrial that would face significant legal limits.

This is the start of a new weekly feature in which Capitol reporter Madeline Shannon discusses the week's highlights in legislative news.

A judge sentenced Christian Pedraza to 16 years to life in prison for a 2021 motel murder. Pedraza was found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Raymond David Alvarez. A jury in a sanity ...

After nearly four decades, DNA evidence led to a conviction in the cold case murder of Ofelia Sandoval, 30, in Santa Barbara County, California.

The masses are not being policed, targeted, and incarcerated,” Distinguished Professor and author Dylan Rodríguez says; “it's ...

Ending prolonged solitary confinement is a matter of prison and public safety, as well as humanity. The time to act upon this ...

March 2, 2026 – An incarcerated person who walked away from Centinela State Prison’s Minimum-Support Facility (CEN-MSF) in ...

Those state employees, who predominantly work for law enforcement and public safety-related agencies, all made more than $100,000 in overtime in 2025 in addition to their regular salaries. In total, 1 ...

Prosecutor-initiated resentencing in Alameda County has reduced thousands of years of incarceration and generated tens to ...

An 18-year-old in California was charged with manufacturing more than two dozen untraceable ghost guns, the Santa Clara DA's office said.