"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.

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

A mass trial of hundreds of alleged MS-13 gang members has wrapped up in El Salvador with prosecutors delivering their ...

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 ...

Elon Musk reignited international attention on Britain’s grooming gangs scandal this week, amplifying a citizen-funded report that accuses the U.K. government of failing to protect children and ...

Twenty-one members of a violent Arlington street gang have pleaded guilty to federal racketeering and other related charges, and one of them was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for murder, ...

Former Smith State Prison Warden Brian Adams has been indicted in connection with an alleged contraband smuggling operation tied to a prison gang. Prosecutors accuse Adams of accepting bribes, ...