Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Sacramento police rookie Tara O’Sullivan’s killer — but at what cost?

The jury of seven women and five men told Judge James Arguelles that they were split on whether Adel Sambrano Ramos should be ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-tenured death row inmate, filed court documents asking for post-conviction ...

Federal prosecutors have been uncovering alleged crimes within the walls of California’s oldest prison, but they say the ...

Nine Alameda County sheriff's deputies and a pair of civilian Santa Rita Jail employees are facing charges related to the ...

An incarcerated man at North Kern State Prison in Delano was killed Sunday, and three other inmates are suspects in his death, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reported ...

Nine Alameda County sheriff's deputies and a pair of civilian Santa Rita Jail employees are facing charges related to the ...

She backed her brother, Iwao Hakamada, the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, through decades ... For his first few years in prison, her brother wrote to his mother every day, repeating ...

The widow of a diabetic man who died in San Diego’s ... s Office ruled the death of a person in sheriff’s custody a homicide when they were not killed by another inmate or at the hands of ...

A use-of-force incident at the Virginia Beach city jail that led to an inmate’s death was recorded by multiple cameras in the facility, according to a city official. In all, 38 videos from ...

California prison ... a death at Kern Valley State Prison, which has been classified as a homicide. Last Saturday afternoon, ...

A retired Army combat medic has been sentenced to 50 years in prison on two counts of sexual exploitation of children, federal officials said Friday. Eric Scott McCants, 47, of San Antonio ...