Austrian Prison Escapee Returns, Fed Up Of Life In The Sun
A man who says he fled an Austrian prison over a decade ago has turned himself in to police in Salzburg, telling them he was fed up with living in Spain's Canary Islands.
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A man who says he fled an Austrian prison over a decade ago has turned himself in to police in Salzburg, telling them he was fed up with living in Spain's Canary Islands.
A U.S. Navy veteran from California has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran, his lawyer said Saturday, becoming the first American known to be imprisoned there since President Donald Trump took office.
Zechariah Lee walked away from Mule Creek State Prison on February 7.
Officials say she was last known to be headed south on Highway 99 at Fruitridge Road Tuesday night.
California will reconsider life sentences for up to 4,000 nonviolent third-strike criminals by allowing them to seek parole.
Two Northern California men who made off with only about $100 in a botched robbery at Reno convenience store have been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison.
California has awarded nearly $2 million in compensation to a former inmate wrongly imprisoned for nearly 40 years.
California prisons could be the first in the nation to make a major dietary change for inmates.
Authorities say an inmate has died and 11 others have been treated for suspected drug overdoses at a Northern California prison.
More ex-convicts could soon be emergency services workers and in-home caregivers under legislation proposed in California.
Gov. Jerry Brown has commuted the sentence of a 57-year-old woman who's serving life in prison without parole despite a bungled plea deal that could have freed her decades ago.
Authorities are investigating the death of an inmate at a Northern California prison as a possible homicide.
Drones are becoming a growing concern among jail guards in Northern California. That's because people may try to use them to smuggle in drugs.
A Southern California man convicted in a drunken driving crash that killed a grandmother and two teenagers has been sentenced to 45 years to life in prison.
Former football legend O.J. Simpson became a free man Sunday after serving nine years for a botched hotel room heist that brought the conviction and prison time he avoided after his 1995 acquittal in the killings of his ex-wife and her friend.
A prisons official says it appears O.J. Simpson is being moved ahead of his release on parole as early as Monday from a prison in Nevada, possibly near Las Vegas.
To ease overcrowding in state prisons, California lawmakers want to release more of the state's older prisoners and more of the inmates who were young when they committed their crimes.
A California county sheriff's office arrested four of its own deputies who are accused of allowing a maximum-security prisoner to throw feces and urine at other inmates.
A transgender prison guard is suing California, saying prison officials have discriminated against her and subjected her to a hostile work environment ever since she transitioned.
Several inmates have been taken to the hospital after a large fight at a state prison in Tuolumne County.
A U.S. Supreme Court decision triggering new sentences for inmates serving mandatory life without parole for crimes committed as juveniles has had a far greater effect: The ruling is prompting lawyers to apply its fundamental logic — that it's cruel and unusual to lock teens up for life — to a larger population, those whose sentences include a parole provision but who stand little chance of getting out.
The cost of imprisoning each of California's 130,000 inmates is expected to reach a record $75,560 in the next year, enough to cover the annual cost of attending Harvard University and still have plenty left over for pizza and beer.
Officials say a fight that forced correctional officers to open fire with real bullets to stop a melee was unusual even by the violent standard of California prisons.
Former Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca is relying on a lifetime of public service, letters of support ranging from ex-governors to ex-cons, and his diagnosis of Alzheimer's in a bid Friday for probation for obstructing an FBI investigation into abuses at the jails he ran.
Researching are finding that smugglers are getting increasingly creative to try and get contraband into prisons.
