Mule Creek State Prison News

A long, hardening prison sentence doesn't equal a license to kill. That's the message being sent by Amador County District Attorney Todd Riebe, whose office is filing charges against a local prisoner for the startlingly vicious slaying of his cellmate.

Two men must stand trial for what prosecutors say was the grisly "overkill" stabbing death of a 58-year-old Tracy woman found dead in her mobile home earlier this year.

Attorneys for Andrew Luster, who is serving a 124-year sentence for drugging and raping women at his beach house north of Ventura, have filed a petition in Superior Court seeking to have his sentence and conviction set aside.

A man who once guarded inmates at Mule Creek State Prison is now headed for a new facility - only this time he'll be on the other side of the bars.

Susan Atkins , one of the members of Charles Manson's Family died yesterday from a brain tumor , but where are the rest of the Manson Family members ? Where are they now? Charles Watson, Patricia Krenwinkle and Linda Kasabian all took part in the brutal murders of Sharon Tate and her friends on August 9th 1969 .

The City of Ione has adopted an updated General Plan that predicts population will more than quadruple by 2030.

Officials are investigating the strangulation death of a 73-year-old inmate at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione.

Mule Creek State Prison inmate David Noles, 73, who was serving a 34-year sentence for rape with foreign object and sexual battery, was pronounced dead on Aug.

State prison officials say a former Sonoma County chiropractor serving time on a rape charge has been killed in prison.

The legislature is back, faced with a prison riot, a federal court order and the need to cut another $1.2 billion from the state budget.

A controversial bill that California legislators say would allow the early release of more than 27,000 inmates from crowded prisons will be taken up by the state Assembly on Monday.

Two California inmates, both serving life sentences for notorious murders in 1970, died in their cells of apparent suicide over the past week.

A man convicted of murdering a family in their Soquel hills home in 1970 died in prison last week and prison officials are investigating his death as a suicide.

The death of a convicted quintuple murderer at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione is being investigated as a suicide, officials said Tuesday.

The man whose murder conviction was overturned after 26 years is due back in a Los Angeles courtroom Monday.

Bruce Lisker, whose murder conviction in his mother's slaying was overturned last week by a judge who ruled he had been the victim of false evidence and poor representation, was released on bail from state prison Thursday after 26 years behind bars.

A man who has spent the past 26 years behind bars for murder is about to walk out of prison a free man.

A man who has spent the past 26 years behind bars for murder is about to walk out of prison a free man.

A man who has spent the past 26 years behind bars for murder is about to walk out of prison a free man.

A federal judge on Friday overturned the conviction of a San Fernando Valley man serving a life prison sentence for the 1983 murder of his mother, ruling that he must either be retried or set free.