Thousands Of Moms Expected To Be Released From Calif. Prisons
As many as half of the 9,000 released inmates will be women with two years or less remaining on their sentence who are parents and non-violent offenders.
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As many as half of the 9,000 released inmates will be women with two years or less remaining on their sentence who are parents and non-violent offenders.
Patricia Wright is serving time for killing her husband, but to this day, she still claims that she is innocent. Now the 60-year-old has an even bigger battle -- cancer.
City officials Tuesday argued over whether the state's move to shift responsibility for low-level criminals to counties will create a "public safety nightmare" and lead to "massive early releases" of prisoners who should be kept behind bars.
Supervisor Mike Antonovich is trying to come up with a plan to adequately prepare the public for an impending release of thousands of state parolees.
A San Fernando Valley man is behind bars on Monday for trying to illegally export missiles parts to Iran from the U.S.
CBS2 Investigative Reporter David Goldstein first reported on wedding photographer Alan Brent Carruth in 2007.
The mother and brother of a developmentally disabled man, who died of neglect, were sentenced Friday.
A California lawmaker says that if convicted rapist Phillip Garrido had served a longer prison term, Jaycee Lee Dugard would not have lost her childhood years to captivity.
A former dentist who served nearly three decades in prison for killing three patients is a free man — and his lawyer is claiming a victory for the taxpayers of California.
End result: he added $1,250. to his jailhouse account. And it gets better:
The county's top law enforcement official on Friday backed off a plan for deputies to handle an expected influx of prison parolees from the California penal system.
A man once listed among the FBI's Ten Most Wanted fugitives has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for shooting and injuring a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy.
Director Yoav Potash visited the KCAL 9 studios Thursday. Potash directed the film "Crime after Crime."
The biggest factor behind the top salaries: payouts for unused vacation and sick time that sometimes doubled an employee's base salary.
California's new budget provides the framework for the state to comply with a federal court order to slice its prison population by more than 20 percent over the next two years, but also acknowledges the state is not likely to meet its initial deadline.
The primary suspect in the Bryan Stow assault case has been transferred to a San Diego prison to serve a parole violation.
A former Los Angeles County social worker has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for filing federal tax returns in the names of 197 people in an effort to snare $2 million in refunds.
A man and a woman were not allowed to touch or kiss but that didn't stop the couple from tying the knot in an Orange County jail Monday.
Anthony Carone and two others were accused of spending millions on so-called "P cards" to buy items at mark-up prices from dummy companies they had set up.
Gov. Jerry Brown's administration says his stalled plan to shift thousands of inmates from state prisons to local jails will eventually address a U.S. Supreme Court order to slash California's prison population by 33,000 inmates.
The former financial controller of an Orange County architectural firm has been sentenced to 13 years in state prison for embezzling nearly $2 million by stealing from corporate accounts and the personal account of a firm owner.
A California-based Internal Revenue Service agent has been sentenced to three years in prison for cheating on his taxes and must repay $127,000 to the IRS.
A new report released on Wednesday shows hundreds of California prison inmates have been mistakenly set free.
The California prison system's independent inspector general says the state improperly freed more than 450 dangerous criminals without supervision last year as part of a controversial program designed to reduce prison populations and cut costs.
The author of some of California's most significant crime laws has called the U.S. Supreme Court order to release thousands of prison inmates "outrageous".
