An inmate accused of spitting on a corrections officer in Indiana County has been sentenced. Indiana County District Attorney ...

Incarcerated people in California have helped put out the fires in Los Angeles. One man, deported to Mexico for his crimes, ...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department sought the public’s assistance Thursday in locating a 29-year-old man diagnosed with depression who was last seen in Rosamond. Carlos Antonio Velasquez was ...

A fast-moving California fire has forced authorities to evacuate part of a 5,000-person jail in Los Angeles County. The ...

The Hughes fire broke out a little before 11 a.m., roughly five miles north of the Pitchess Detention Center. The Sheriff's ...

This week on Everyday Injustice, we talk with Johanna Lacoe, research director at the California Policy Lab on a recent study ...

Tens of thousands of people ordered to flee their homes as wildfires tore through Los Angeles were told Thursday they would ...

Federal investigators found in a scathing report this week that a large jail in South Carolina vastly underreports the violence occurring behind its walls and lets dozens of inmates go unsupervised ...

Fanned by strong winds, the wildfires have killed at least 24 people and swept through 40,000 acres in the Greater Los ...

Using inmate labor to fight fires has been a practice in California since the 1940s. Where did it start and what do participants actually do and get paid?

Oklahoma is past its former title of top incarcerator in the world, though progress moving down the national rankings has plateaued.