SAN JOSE — At age 22, Salvador Mexicano’s life has centered on gangs, poverty, violence and prison.

An Oscar-nominated documentary exposing violence inside prison walls is coming to Oklahoma City. Criminal justice reform advocates want to bring attention to Oklahoma’s prison system by showing the ...

Joseph Mendoza, 36, was stabbed nearly 180 times and died at the Salinas Valley State Prison. Someone on staff captured video of the stabbing and leaked it where it appeared on social media, according ...

(L-R) The family of Joseph Mendoza and their attorneys, Celina Mendoza (wife of Joseph Mendoza), Zina Kumetat (mother), Adanté Pointer of Pointer & Buena LLP, Bryan Harrison of Harrison Kristopher LLP ...

A U.S. District Court judge sentenced a 38-year-old woman detained in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s raid of Glenn Valley Foods last summer to one year in jail Wednesday. Hundreds ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Spring Valley man was sentenced to 10 years in state prison for illegal possession of a firearm Wednesday, Feb. 4. Rockland ...

A Spring Valley man was sentenced to 10 years in state prison for illegal possession of a firearm Wednesday, Feb. 4. Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Walsh II said that during a dispute with a ...

A former Northern California prison lieutenant was arrested Monday on federal charges accusing him of smuggling contraband into a state prison in exchange for about $100,000 from an inmate, federal ...

Three Alabama prison inmates featured in an Oscar-nominated documentary have filed a federal lawsuit alleging their abrupt transfer to isolated cells last month violated their First Amendment rights.