As population and needs grow, some Lancaster County Commissioners want proactive action on expanding jail facilities.

LANCASTER, Pa. — A homeless man will serve up to 12 years in state prison after pleading guilty last month to assaulting ...

Five California correctional officers who were accused of sexually assaulting incarcerated people over the last dozen years remain employed by the state, according to a new audit from the state ...

"We need some help. Whoever is doing this, we need it to stop," Lancaster County Chief Deputy Sheriff Ben Houchin said.

Josue Efrain Rivera, 43, was sentenced to 10 to 25 years in state prison. Rivera pleaded guilty to charges of rape of a child ...

His attorney, Abbie Steiner, argued for probation, given his history of military service and a traumatic brain injury that ...

A California mother and father were convicted on Tuesday of stabbing and decapitating their 13-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son, then forcing their two younger children to look at the bodies, ...

SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif — In 2002, a San Bernardino criminal judge sentenced a Black man to 35 years to life for reaching into an open car window and snatching a purse from the front seat. The man, ...

If you’re serving hard time inside a California prison, you’ll often find yourself stuck in a cramped cell with a complete stranger. You hang a bedsheet to manufacture the semblance of privacy between ...

BETWEEN MARCH AND JUNE OF THIS YEAR. ALSO NEW OUT OF LANCASTER COUNTY, A MAN WILL SERVE BETWEEN 5 AND 13 YEARS IN PRISON AFTER PLEADING GUILTY TO STEALING A CAR FROM A PIZZA DELIVERY DRIVER AT ...

TIRELESSLY TO ENSURE JUSTICE OCCURS IN THIS CASE. OTHER NEWS RIGHT NOW, FOUR INMATES WERE INJURED IN A PRISON RIOT THAT BROKE OUT IN FOLSOM. THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS SAYS IT HAPPENED AT ...

(FOX40.COM) — Four inmates were hospitalized after a riot involving 20 incarcerated people on Monday at the California State Prison, Sacramento, in Folsom, according to the California Department of ...