Supreme Court Endorses Order To Cut State's Prison Population
The Supreme Court has endorsed a court order requiring California to cut its prison population by thousands of inmates to improve health care for those who remain behind bars.
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The Supreme Court has endorsed a court order requiring California to cut its prison population by thousands of inmates to improve health care for those who remain behind bars.
An Orange County man has been sentenced to 45 years to life in prison for forcibly sodomizing three women, including two he met through an online dating service.
The former Assembly speaker said that his biggest mistake and regret was interfering with his son's legal team when Esteban Nunez was to be tried for his role in the 2008 killing of Luis Santos.
The San Diego District Attorney has filed a civil lawsuit to try to reinstate the full 16-year sentence for Esteban Nunez.
The owners and manager of a downtown Los Angeles jewelry store have been sentenced to up to 30 months in federal prison for illegally importing and selling fake designer jewelry, some of which had dangerous levels of lead.
A Garden Grove woman learns the price she'll pay for killing a jewelry salesman.
A year ago, the defendant's son was sentenced in Los Angeles federal court to eight years in prison and 30 years of supervised release.
States spend $52 billion a year to put people who break the law behind bars. But what happens to many ex-convicts after they get out of prison?
A former executive for an investor relations firm has been sentenced in Los Angeles to prison for an insider trading scheme that generated nearly $2 million in illegal profits.
Prosecutors have decided not to retry a wrongly convicted man who was freed three weeks ago after spending more than 20 years in prison.
A 74-year-old man pleaded guilty Friday to the killings of seven women in the Southland in the 1970s and 1980s and was immediately sentenced to seven life prison terms, one without the possibility of parole.
The owner of a Southern California medical supply company has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for Medicare fraud in an unneeded electric wheelchair scam.
The ex-bookkeeper of a California church has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for stealing $129,000.
A Southern California investment adviser has pleaded guilty to securities fraud for bilking elderly residents in a $6 million Ponzi scheme.
Legislation calling for prisoners applying for early release to notify prosecutors and families 30 days before the governor can act is one step closer to becoming law.
A former Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for taking bribes and filing false papers for immigrants seeking to remain legally in the United States.
The owner of a Southern California furniture manufacturing company has been sentenced to 10 months in federal prison for hiring illegal immigrants.
A California jury has recommended life in prison for a man convicted of killing and elderly man and his daughter in their Lake Arrowhead home.
A Sikh inmate in a San Luis Obispo prison is suing the state Department of Corrections, alleging that he was unfairly disciplined for refusing to trim his beard in adherence to his religion.
A former Los Angeles-area high school principal and volleyball coach has been sentenced to eight years in state prison for molesting teenage students.
The county's top law enforcement officer seemed to surprise some members of the Board of Supervisors with his willingness to consider taking on new responsibilities.
A man who shot and wounded a Gardena police officer two years ago has been sentenced to life in state prison.
A 20-year Marine Corps veteran was sentenced to six years in prison for his role in a $1.7 million scheme to defraud federal contracts tied to shipments to Iraq.
A Hawthorne man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for beating his 2-year-old stepdaughter to death.
A former employee has pleaded no contest to sexually assaulting three mentally disabled women at a Southern California adult day care center.
