Today, Assemblymember Gregg Hart introduced AB 2257 to strengthen accountability and restore checks and balances in the governance of California’s county ...

In light of 10 deaths already in 2026, Supervisor Janice Hahn will offer a motion to the Board of Supervisors next month to ...

California counties are housing more than 1,100 inmates on long-term sentences in jails designed for stays of a year or less, according to the first report detailing the growth in that population ...

A radiologist attends to an inmate patient at West Valley Detention Center’s Medical Clinic. Sheriff’s administrators have hired more mental health and medical professionals to meet the needs of an ...

Every five days, on average, someone dies in the jails of Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino or Riverside counties. Broken bodies, broken minds and substance abuse are at the root of most of the ...

Facing a pending lawsuit from the California Attorney General's office over dire conditions in the jail system, officials at ...

California's Attorney General is suing the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department over jail conditions. The lawsuit alleges inhumane and unconstitutional conditions, including filth, overcrowding, ...

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 ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)—California counties are housing more than 1,100 inmates on long-term sentences in jails designed for stays of a year or less, according to the first report detailing the growth ...