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A man who was despondent over losing his job and drove recklessly along Pacific Coast Highway, crashing his car and killing a 13-year-old Malibu girl, was sentenced Friday to 15 years to life in prison.
A Los Angeles man has been sentenced to life in prison for attacking four teenage girls and an 18-year-old woman in the San Fernando Valley.
Calicinto Ranch offers children whose parents are incarcerated the opportunity to connect with peers, to learn to trust again and to see that prison doesn't have to be in their future.
Today, Wayne Kramer is a successful music composer for film and television. And because he has gotten his life back on track, he started the nonprofit organization, Jail Guitar Doors, which raises money to buy new guitars for prison inmates as a means of therapy.
A former Southland congressman and Navy veteran wants his right to bear arms reinstated when his time in federal prison is over.
A Santa Ana mother accused of having a baby with a tenth grader made her first court appearance Monday, but did not enter a plea.
District Attorney Steve Cooley hailed the use of DNA evidence in the conviction of former LAPD detective Stephanie Lazarus.
The California Rehabilitation Center would be closed as part of a California prison overhaul aimed at saving the state over $1 billion in annual spending.
California voters will be asked to make a life-or-death decision this year. All of the necessary 500,000 signatures have been collected to earn the death penalty repeal a spot on the November ballot.
A convicted murderer, who has maintained his innocence for the past 27 years, was freed from prison Saturday morning after a judge ruled that his right to a fair trial had been violated.
72-year-old Sid Landau will have his day in court to prove he no longer poses a threat as a sexually violent predator.
Prison officials say a state convict has been released by mistake in L.A.
A company that supplies California prisons with pay phones is installing technology to disable cell phones.
A reentry center in Long Beach is providing a bridge for ex-cons in transitioning from incarceration back into the community.
A 38-year-old man is on trial for allegedly raping an 8-year-old girl he is related to.
California prison inmates who are held in solitary confinement are petitioning the United Nations to step in and end the practice.
A gang member from the San Gabriel Valley has been sentenced to death for killing two people in Whittier.
Car break-ins have jumped to as high as three times the normal rate in cities like Tarzana, Encino and Van Nuys — and police say they may know why.
Rick Ehlert, 45, will serve four months in prison for releasing the anchor on a commercial cruise liner while in international waters.
The head of a small hip-hop record label who prosecutors say led a drug trafficking ring that used chartered jets to ship cocaine and cash between Baltimore and Los Angeles has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.
A 23-year-old woman was sentenced to nearly three years in prison Tuesday for the hit-and-run death of a San Fernando Valley teenager.
The father and two girlfriends of a convicted killer from Pico Rivera were faced prison time on Monday for cashing thousands of dollars unemployment checks in his name.
More than 700 million people use Facebook – among them are some of California's most-hardened prisoners. CBS2's Jeff Nguyen recently visited local prisons to see how inmates are accessing the internet and social networking sites from cell phones.
A Southland man on Friday had at least 30 reasons why one should never punch a federal agent.
Robert Fierro could face up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to a federal conspiracy charge.
