CORONA, Calif. — Mary Thompson, an inmate at the California Institution for Women here, was convicted of two felonies for a robbery spree in which she threatened victims with a knife. Her third felony ...

WEBVTT CRIMES. RON: NEWS 8'S PORCHA JOHNSON LOOKED INTO IT AND WENT TO THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR FOR SOME ANSWERS. >> GOING FROM LIFE SENTENCES BEHIND BARS TO NEW LIVES OUTSIDE PRISON WALLS. >> I THINK ...

Comedian Louis C.K. recently went on a social-media rant about the Common Core State Standards and testing, as my colleague Catherine Gewertz blogged this week. Within the Twitter barrage of ...

Community sentences handed out to criminals have fallen by 10% in a year, official figures indicate. Having risen since 2010/11, the sentences handed out as an alternative to custody – such as ...

Iran will pardon or commute the sentences of a large number of prisoners as part of an annual amnesty, state media reported Sunday, although it is unclear how this will apply to people arrested in the ...