California's prison system faces rising violence from 'dropout' gangs. These gangs, formed by defectors from traditional gangs, operate in protective custody areas, contributing to a surge in prison ...

The leader of a Southern California street gang was sentenced to nine years in prison for ordering the kidnapping of a woman ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The vice mayor of a small Southern California city is under fire after appearing to call on street gangs to organize in the face of immigration sweeps by federal agents in and ...

Anyone who has followed the devastating violence in California’s prisons knows that gang rivalries trigger a lot of the bloodshed. So it stood to reason that if the authorities could get members to ...

Under Newsom, California has made it more difficult to jail gang members, chiefly through 2021’s Assembly Bill 333. The STEP Forward Act, as it was called, made it harder for prosecutors to use gang ...

An early 1990s report from the California Department of Justice noted that there were more than 500 U.S.-based motorcycle gangs at the time, many with evocative names like Iron Horsemen, Rebel Rousers ...

The vice mayor of a tiny Southern California city is under fire after appearing to call on street gangs to organize in the face of immigration sweeps by federal agents in Los Angeles.In a video post ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LOS ANGELES (AP) — The vice mayor of a small ...