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 ...

Corrections departments may tout a zero-tolerance approach, but understaffing means that wardens and gang leaders have never ...

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

Last week, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the arrest of a narcotics supplier accused of providing drugs to ...

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, ...

BECOMES AN ATTRACTIVE LANDMARK ALONG ROUTE 661 U ONE SEVEN. MORE THAN A DECADE IN THE MAKING, FEDERAL PROSECUTORS CRACKED DOWN ON THE SYNDICATO DE NUEVO MEXICO PRISON GANG IS COMPLETE. AUTHORITIES SAY ...