A federal judge has named a receiver to run California’s troubled prison mental health system. Colette Peters, a reformist ...

After 35 years of failing reports and climbing suicide rates, a federal judge is appointing an outsider to propose fixes for ...

California prisons have failed for decades to provide staffing or treatment for many thousands of mentally ill inmates and must pay fines that could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars, a ...

California remains in civil contempt for failing to provide constitutionally adequate mental-health care in its prisons, but a lower court must reconsider the state’s punishment, a federal appeals ...

A 55-year-old man was sentenced in Sacramento County for lewd acts upon a child over several months, the district attorney's ...