Los Angeles County and other state prisons are upgrading their security after a recent surge in violence against staff and inmates. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) ...

Nanon Williams was sent to death row for a murder he says he didn't commit. Decades later, through daily emails and prison ...

Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, Calif., is one of 11 correctional facilities where officials have limited movement and privileges for inmates amid a "surge" in violence. (Mark Boster/Los ...

High-security prisons across California have tightly restricted movement, calls and visits while officials probe a surge in violence this year.The restrictions started Saturday and affect the ...

Hochman said the Menendez brothers, who have served 35 years in prison, have not fully acknowledged more than a dozen lies, including that they killed their parents in self-defense at their Beverly ...

Chelsea Hylton is a web producer for CBS Los Angeles. An Inglewood native, Hylton has her master's degree from USC. She covers local breaking news across the Southern California region. Before joining ...

Nancy Adams grew comfortable sharing her Compton townhome during the COVID-19 pandemic when she rented spare bedrooms to traveling nurses. Still, it was a long leap of faith to open her home to her ...

A crash involving a prison inmate transport van caused multiple lanes to be blocked on the 5 Freeway on Monday morning.

Steven Backstrom was struggling to stay awake during his shift in the prison shoe factory. The machines could be dangerous if you weren’t paying attention, and he’d slept about 3½ hours. Activity at ...