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Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton do not see eye to eye when it comes to issues about the death penalty...

The state has proposed a new plan for single-drug executions in California; this would give prison officials the ability to choose among four lethal chemicals...

Governor Jerry Brown is sponsoring a November ballot initiative that would allow inmates to get out of prison earlier and require judges, not prosecutors, to decide whether to charge juveniles as adults...

The Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections believes that the Justice Department should limit the cases it brings to court and steer nonviolent crimes towards probation, instead of prison. Doing so would save more than $5 billion dollars.

Mario Woods was said to have raised a knife and approached an officer before being killed by five San Francisco Police Officers...

Despite law enforcement efforts to reduce the homicide rate, the Bay Area’s murder rates have risen once again. The homicide rate has been at an all-time low since 2001. In 2015, the homicide rate increased by almost 10 percent, proving that more work needs to be done by law enforcement and community leaders...

After settling a lawsuit by hunger-striking inmates, California prisons are reducing the use of solitary confinement. Unfortunately, this settlement does not account for juveniles and there has been difficulty passing a proposal that restricts isolation for adolescent offenders...

Defendant Galan was convicted with the possession and distribution of child pornography and now has to pay restitution. He believes that the district court made a mistake when it failed to separate...

The Supreme Court is reviewing the appeal of Timothy Foster’s 1987 murder trial in Rome, Georgia. The appeal was made on the grounds that there was racial prejudice among an all-white jury in sentencing Foster, who is African-American, to death.

A 10-year-old boy, Joseph H., allegedly shot and killed (CA Penal Code 187) his father while the man was sleeping on the couch. ...

Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow is currently awaiting trial on charges of racketeering in San Francisco Federal District Court, but prosecutors now claim to have evidence that may now link him to the murder of a Chinatown community organization’s leader...

The FBI released crime statistics showing that the overall crime rates have dropped again in 2014. This is the lowest crime rates have been in the last two decades. Compared to 2013, violent crime rates have declined by one percent and property crime rates by five percent...

Recently, the California Supreme Court overruled its own decision and found that there is no equal protection violation that arises from provisions in California’s Sex Offender Registration Act that only requires optional registration for those convicted of illegal sexual intercourse with a minor...

Alameda County client charged with a Misdemeanor violation of Vehicle Code section 20001(a) – leaving the scene of an accident in Alameda...

For millions of Americans that have been convicted of a crime it is hard for them to find and keep a job once employers run background checks. Although the sentence may have occurred over a decade ago and has no relevance to the field of employment they are in...

Proposition 36, or the Three Strikes Reform Act of 2012, was passed on November 6, 2012. This proposition reduced the punishment of certain third-strike offenses that are neither serious or nor violent...

Reports have indicated that federal agents have spent over $1 million while investigating alleged racketeering (federal racketeering) by an organization in San Francisco’s Chinatown...

Many people think of the American Criminal Justice system as an institution that punishes those who are guilty of committing a crime, but never being punishing someone for a crime they may commit someday in the future...

Two men in Richmond, California have been arrested on charges of human trafficking...

After the murder of 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle in San Francisco on July 1st, House Republicans are infuriated about the release of an illegal immigrant from prison who is charged with the murder...

President Barack Obama visited El Reno federal Prison in Oklahoma, where he sat down and talked to six inmates and prison officials as part of a television special to air on HBO...

The Supreme Court has invalidated part of a federal law that is intended to keep repeated offenders in prison longer.

Leland Yee faces several years in federal prison after admitting that he took bribes from undercover agents working for the FBI in exchange for Yee’s promise to vote on legislation...

History has been made as the Supreme Court ruled by a 5-4 vote in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges that the Constitution guarantees the right to same-sex marriage...