Officials said the officers were conducting an "emergency cell extraction" when the prisoner attacked the officers with an improvised weapon.

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Atwater Village gang boss Timothy McGhee’s first-degree murder convictions were tossed out by the California Supreme Court ...

A famed former LAPD detective, who now lives in Danville, details his investigation into a 1990 murder and its aftermath.

(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) The California ... he incited jail riots and assaulted guards, court records show. In 2012, he was accused of slashing two prison guards with a shank while ...

(Don Feria for Bay Area News Group) Elliott told this news organization it was distressing to not be able to weigh in on Newsom’s decision, which set in motion Martinez’s release from prison ...

The death of Robert Cole at Mule Creek State Prison, if determined to be a homicide, would be the latest in a spate of ...

Female legislators proposed a slate of bills aimed at prison reform, including offering survivors of sexual violence ...

An inmate died Friday at Mule Creek State Prison in California. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation A former Placer County volleyball coach, convicted of child sex charges ...