Patrick Harvey, reportedly the first Humboldt County defendant sentenced under California's three strikes law, will soon be a ...

Both men are repeat offenders sentenced under California’s tough “three-strikes” law, which mandates long prison terms for those convicted of at least two prior felonies. On Tuesday ...

Demands for tougher laws and harsher penalties for criminal behavior are almost universal. In 1994, California enacted the nation’s most arduous version of a strict “three-strikes” law, which mandates ...

Three Santa Maria residents are set to face trial over a fatal robbery attempt in December 2023, which resulted in the death of one individual and serious injuries to another. The accused, Andrew Paul ...

Parole was denied for a convicted three-strike offender, for crimes committed over 20 years ago.The Kern County District ...

The inmate was walking in a yard at Salinas Valley State Prison on March 23, 2023, when he approached a licensed vocational ...

A man who set fire to cars in a Seaside driveway earned a sentence of 30 years to life in prison Friday, Monterey County prosecutors said. James Sloop, 48, of Marina, was sentenced as a third "strike" ...

NEW YORK, NY – The origins of the “Three Strikes Laws” can be traced to the early 1900s eugenics movement, according to a ...

Members of the Colorado Supreme Court considered on Tuesday the request from prosecutors, on the one hand, to interpret the ...

It’s beyond time to end the “three strikes” law that sentences people to die in prison for their third drug offense — and instead give judges the discretion to levy punishments as they see ...

A state inmate was handed an additional term of 25 years to life for sexually assaulting a prison nurse, prosecutors said Friday. Tyrone Owens, 41, was walking in a yard at Salinas Valley State Prison ...