A federal judge took the rare step last week of concluding an incarcerated, self-represented plaintiff should be compensated $10,000 by the U.S. government for a prison guard’s unwarranted use of ...

Prisoners are being flown around the state amid revelations watchhouses are bursting at the seams, with frustrated police ...

The sign at Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla is shown in a file photo. (TOMAS OVALLE/Fresno Bee file) A former correctional officer at the women’s prison in Chowchilla was sentenced ...

For the second time in a fortnight, a police manhunt is underway – this time for Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, a 24-year-old Algerian sex offender previously convicted of indecent exposure who had been ...