Lines died from drug withdrawal in the Las Colinas women’s jail in May, a day after her arrest. Dean, who suffered from ...

More than three dozen past and current inmates have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging male LA County sheriff’s deputies ...

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 ...

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. -- Authorities in California are searching for six inmates who accessed a 20-foot high roof and escaped from the Merced County Jail Saturday night. "They used that makeshift rope ...

A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of 38 current and former inmates in Los Angeles County’s women’s jail claims male staff ...

U.S. Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi, shown at a news conference Tuesday, said she looks "forward to cooperating with California's county sheriffs." (Julia Demaree Nikhinson / Associated Press) The U.S. Justice ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. -- The investigation of a daring California jail break has led to the arrests of five people, with more expected soon, but the three inmates who escaped remain at large, the Orange ...

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 ...

Nicholas Jacobson had just been accused of murder when a raging infection nearly killed him. Left untreated for two weeks in a California jail, sepsis drove him into a coma as his organs started to ...

Prosecutors say Loc Ba Nguyen smuggled items into the Central Men's Jail. — -- New details have emerged in the escape of three inmates from a maximum security California jail on Jan. 22 on what ...

The Lassen County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after an inmate died while in custody at the Lassen County Jail.