"Perkins operations" are widespread in California and have helped secure hundreds of murder convictions; DAs say they are powerful tools.

If the police come, we'll only fight them if there's no other choice—the exchange of gunfire is to cover our escape." Sagat ...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said the fugitive was released by a Mexican magistrate.

South L.A. Crips member Chase Matthew Griffin pleaded guilty in March to conspiracy to commit bank fraud. He was sentenced to ...

An inmate who was captured after escaping from a prison camp near Lake Tahoe and was released by a magistrate is on the run again. Miguel Banuelos, 49, was initially reported as missing on July 4 ...

The U.S. government has designated two new Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. The Juárez Cartel, on the ...

A member of a South Los Angeles-based Crips street gang has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison for his role in a ...

Miguel Banuelos, 49, walked away from a Nevada County work camp on July 4 and was recaptured in Tijuana without incident on July 6. But after appearing before a magistrate judge in Mexico, he was ...

California officials dial back the minor reforms they've made to isolation in prison, four years after Governor Gavin Newsom ...

An alleged drug dealer in Merced County was arrested this week for trying to smuggle narcotics into California State Prison, ...

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino announced plans to build a new maximum-security prison for gang leaders, placing Panama more firmly inside a regional shift toward hardline prison policies ...