Mass inmate release possible in Calif.
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is considering the early release of more than 20,000 low-risk prison inmates from the nation's largest prison system as a way to save money amid a worsening budget crisis, a newspaper reported Thursday.
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Jonathan King hopes to be freed from prison within weeks, after serving less than half his sentence for sexual abuse.
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Ministry reveals releases under government scheme to cut jail overcrowding
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After two days at large, Young Buck is now ready to turn himself in to the Santa Monica Police Department. According Buck&#39;s lawyers, the rapper is set to surrender in the near future and is expecting to be released on bail.
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Hundreds of inmates' relatives gathered outside Mexico's top-security prison on Sunday as federal authorities announced plans to occupy the facility for at least another week.
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Warning that the nation&#039;s largest prison system is dangerously overcrowded, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday summoned lawmakers into a special session to decide whether to build two new prisons and adopt other relief measures.
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Home Secretary John Reid is considering giving victims of crime a say on offenders' release from jail.
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A U.S. citizen held since late 2001 as an enemy combatant is to be sent to Saudi Arabia by Thursday under an agreement to release him that was made public Monday.
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Governor commutes sentence of man who was scheduled to die via lethal injection this evening.
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Non-violent offenders could be released early to ease prison overcrowding in England and Wales.
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Foxy Brown is asking to be released from jail so she can go to California for hearing tests and repair of a cochlear implant.
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Governors told to move as many inmates as possible to open jails in response to prison overcrowding
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By Kimberly Trone, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.  Feb. 6--The Riverside County Board of Supervisors today will consider a  financial agreement on a land swap that could lead to expansion of the  downtown Riverside jail.
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By Scott Duke Harris, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun.
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A slaying suspect escaped from a county jail by assuming the identity of another inmate and was on the loose for more than six hours before authorities realized he was gone, officials said. He was still at large Monday morning.
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Police in Manchester launch a hunt for a man who was released from prison by mistake.
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By Cheryl Winkelman  Sex is taking place behind bars.   According to Isela Gonzales, an HIV counseling, testing and linkages coordinator with San Francisco County's Department of Public Health, transgendered inmates and gay men admitted to her they'd been sexually solicited.