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 ...

Even before she was sworn in as the 31st sheriff of San Diego County, the first woman to hold that job, Kelly A. Martinez knew the work ahead would be arduous. Martinez stepped in three years ago next ...

A state office created in 2024 to scrutinize local investigations into jail deaths has yet to complete a single review of the more than 150 people who have died in custody in California’s county jails ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Every death inside Southern California’s county jails is put under a microscope. Every cause of death is analyzed, every lapse in services or employee misstep is scrutinized. The question then becomes ...