Crime has been a see-saw issue in California for most of the last 40 years. Leniency was the vogue for awhile recently. But now the balance is back to getting tougher, as polls this fall showed ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom has granted a full and unconditional pardon to Earlonne Woods, co-founder and co-host of the ...

Damian Clopton, who was convicted of two counts related to a 2008 drug case, is among 19 people who were pardoned Wednesday ...

There were only seven state prisons when the California Men’s Colony was built — today there are 31 adult institutions listed ...

Memorably described as "living hell" by Johnny Cash, San Quentin has long been one of the USA's most infamous prisons.

The fastest-growing sport in the United States has reached San Luis Obispo’s only prison. On a mid-November morning inside ...

The success of November’s Proposition 36 is just the latest chapter in the state’s seesaw process that has been going on ...

Arrested in connection with an attack on a park guard in Philly’s Fairmount Park in 1970, he spent two years underground with ...

On the day before Thanksgiving, California Gov. Gavin Newsom pardoned 19 people, including Walter Earlonne Woods, who was ...

From then on, Folsom prison and the wider idea of prisoners’ lives and mindsets stayed with him as a constant inspiration and ...