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 ...

L.A. County's supervisors called on the Sheriff's Department to implement new health and safety measures after 10 inmate ...

A 38-year-old inmate died in custody following a medical emergency at a Southern California jail, authorities announced Wednesday. Corrections staff and jail medical personnel responded to one of the ...

Reforms would increase security screenings and safety checks, better monitor surveillance cameras and improve access to drug ...

A new company will soon provide correctional healthcare services at the Shasta County Jail.  On Tuesday, March 10, the Shasta County Board of Supervisors approved a $8.1 million contract between the ...

More than three dozen past and current inmates have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging male Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies sexually abused, harassed and routinely watched women shower in the ...

Serial child predator David Allen Funston was granted parole and he was released from a California prison on Thursday. But he didn’t get very far before deputies swooped in, re-arrested him, ...