Proposition 36 passed in the last election and allows for higher punishment for theft crimes. KSBY looked into how it's going so far, and how local business owners feel about it.

Female legislators proposed a slate of bills aimed at prison reform, including offering survivors of sexual violence alternatives to incarceration.

April is Alcohol Awareness Month, and according to Terri Houser the rate of alcohol addiction in San Luis Obispo is higher ...

Retired educator turned pastor Myra Harris writes that sparing Mikal Mahdi would send “a powerful message to all of the other ...

A man whose deportation was blocked by an immigration judge in 2019 was deported last month due to an "administrative error," ...

The Chinese citizen who admitted to operating a drone in Vandenberg Space Force Base airspace was sentenced to four months in ...

A Republican lawmaker is pushing a new bill that would seclude female transgender prisoners from cisgender women prisoners in ...

Secretary Noem visited a high-security El Salvador prison, as activists say the prison is rife with human rights abuses while ...

Grimm tried to prove his innocence over the course of his 44 years in prison and throughout his time on parole. DNA testing in 2002, 2012 and 2013 excluded Grimm as the source of all DNA profiles ...

SAN DIEGO — A 25-year-old San Diego man convicted of driving drunk and colliding with a van in Clairemont, killing a woman inside, will not be going to prison. The victim's body was discovered a ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A Honduran national who was ... sentenced Hernandez-Turcios to two concurrent three-year federal prison terms, after which he will be deported again, court records show.