Sacramento County’s housing and handling of inmates is in violation of federal law and an agreement to improve mental-health and medical conditions for inmates, a civil grand jury found. Federal law ...

Sacramento County Main Jail on J Street in downtown Sacramento is seen in this 2020 photo. Paul Kitagaki Jr. [email protected] A 66-year-old man held at Sacramento County Main Jail died Monday at a ...

One inmate in his late 30s was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail in February and told a nurse doing intake screening that he had consumed a gallon of liquor every day for two years straight.

About 90% of the pre-sentenced jail population in Sacramento County has been diagnosed with a serious mental illness — and things might be about to get a lot worse. Jay Mather Sacramento Bee file ...

A 66-year-old man held at Sacramento County Main Jail died Monday at a hospital, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Official said. The inmate, held in jail custody since Sept. 10 for failing to register ...