A transgender woman sued Los Angeles County, the Sheriff's Department and Sheriff Robert Luna today, alleging her civil rights were violated when she was housed with male inmates in the Twin Towers ...

An inmate at the Sacramento County Jail has died after his cellmate reported the two were involved in a fight Wednesday night ...

Critics of Prop. 36 say the law makes simple drug possession a felony, dramatically increasing costs to taxpayers for incarceration without reducing crime, and that it will cause confusion in the ...

High-security prisons across California have tightly restricted movement, calls and visits while officials probe a surge in violence this year.

ACLU lawyers and other advocates had raised questions about whether the transfer of a man with a 21-year-old assault ...

Cameras that likely would have shown an altercation between inmates and deputies at the Los Angeles Men’s Central Jail over the weekend were unavailable due to maintenance issues, officials ...

Inmate firefighters housed in California's county jails and state prisons would earn an hourly wage of up to $19 under ...

A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy at Men's Central Jail was stabbed in the head when he tried to pull aside an inmate, ...

The Walker County Commission held a meeting Monday March 10, 2025, as two law enforcement officers with the Walker County ...

Cameras inside the Men's Central Jail were shut off for maintenance when inmates stabbed one deputy in the head and attacked ...

A deputy suffered a puncture-type injury and was taken, along with three others, to a hospital where they were treated and ...

Deputies who were allegedly attacked by several inmates at the Men’s Central Jail downtown are recovering from injuries ...