Video footage of the inmate in handcuffs being punched and stomped by guards triggered widespread shock and calls for reform in New York's prisons.
Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman spoke out the day after a judge resentenced Erik and Lyle Menendez.
Rapper Tory Lanez was reportedly stabbed by a fellow inmate Monday and hospitalized in unknown condition.
An Astoria, Queens, pastry shop that got international attention in 2024 when it distributed cookies to inmates at Rikers Island of Pope Francis, is keeping up the tradition with Pope Leo cookies.
A proposal by President Trump to reopen Alcatraz as a prison is getting a lot of attention and reaction from tourists, Bay Area leaders and even a former Alcatraz inmate. "I think it's one of the stupidest ideas I've ever heard in my life," said one visitor from Washington state.
The prison -- infamously inescapable due to the strong ocean currents and cold Pacific waters that surround it -- was known as the "The Rock" and housed some of the nation's most notorious criminals, including gangster Al Capone and George "Machine Gun" Kelly.