Prison

Ex-NFL tight end Kellen Winslow II, who committed sexual offenses against five women in Northern San Diego County, is slated to be sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in state prison.

A Long Beach man serving time in state prison for attempted murder was was sentenced Tuesday to seven years and eight months in federal prison for his role in a drug-trafficking scheme that smuggled narcotics to inmates with the help of a prison cook.

An advisory committee recommends California should allow all but death row inmates and those serving life-without-parole to request lighter sentences after serving at least 15 years.

In prisons around the country, COVID-19 outbreaks have followed transfers of prisoners or prison workers.

California authorities are investigating the stabbing death of an inmate at a state prison as a homicide.

“Full House” star Lori Loughlin has reported to a California federal prison to serve her two-month sentence for her part in the “Operation Varsity Blues” college admissions scam, an official at the facility told NBC News. Loughlin and and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli were required to begin serving their prison sentences by Nov. 19. They admitted to paying…

A local program for repeat offenders of non-violent offenses is proving to be a success in giving them a second chance, especially when others may have given up on them.

Gov. Newsom announced the closure of a state prison in his latest step to reduce California’s incarceration footprint.

WNBA star Maya Moore revealed Wednesday that she tied the knot with Jonathan Irons — a man she helped free from prison this year after a judge overturned his conviction.

More than 1,000 tainted cases were tallied in a new nationwide study by the registry that measures the role of government misconduct in wrongful convictions — and how that misconduct falls heaviest on Black exonerees. The study, published Tuesday, examined 2,400 cases from 1989 through February 2019 in which people were absolved of criminal convictions, and it found that 54...

A 77-year-old prison escapee who had been on the run for nearly half a century was captured this week at his home in New Mexico, the FBI said.

Tents were set up in the yard of San Quentin State Prison to treat inmates with COVID-19. At least 1,011 cases of the virus have been reported.

Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney and ‘fixer’ for President Donald Trump, was released two years early from prison over coronavirus concerns. He will serve the remainder of his three-year sentence at home.

The response from the federal Bureau of Prisons to the growing coronavirus crisis in prisons has raised alarm among advocates and lawmakers about whether the agency is doing enough to ensure the safety of the nearly 150,000 inmates serving time in federal facilities.