MERCED COUNTY, Calif. – Authorities in California say six inmates, including a man charged with murder, used a “homemade rope” to escape a jail over the weekend. The Merced County Sheriff’s Office ...

San Diego County has been under intense scrutiny for years over its unusually high number of in-custody deaths.

The Sheriff's Department said the correctional officer used a medical appointment as a pretense to take the female inmate, ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- An inmate in solitary confinement at a California jail was refusing to leave his cell. The jailers' usual response: Send an "extraction team" of corrections officers to burst ...

SANTA ANA, CA -- Three jail inmates, including a suspected murderer, escaped from a California jail, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Department. Hossein Nayeri, 37, Jonathan Tieu, 20, and Bac ...

Former Orange County sheriff’s Deputy Arcadio Rodriguez, who was arrested in 2022 on suspicion of sexually assaulting two ...

Citing “inhumane conditions” and a “shocking rate of deaths,” Attorney General Rob Bonta on Monday announced that the state is suing Los Angeles County over conditions in its jail system. “We can’t ...

The Sheriff’s Office will conduct a thorough inmate death investigation in accordance with department procedures and state laws. The Sacramento County Coroner’s Office will determine the cause of ...

In California, more than 44,000 people are in jail without having been convicted. Some have been there for years, waiting to go to trial. “The more shocking stat is that there are 1,300 unsentenced ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Three jail inmates, including a suspected murderer, escaped from the Orange County Men's Jail, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Department. Hossein Nayeri, 37, Jonathan ...