The County of Sacramento is barreling toward spending $1 billion — no, that’s not a typo — to add a new mental health annex to the County Jail.

A federal judge in Oakland on Tuesday formally approved the settlement of a class-action lawsuit that requires court-monitored protection for hundreds of former FCI Dublin inmates who remain incarcera ...

A consent decree and a new sheriff are some reasons the jail is making reforms ... number of in-custody deaths in all of Northern California. Plus, over the last decade, the Alameda County ...

"We have a dire sense of urgency. The restoration program is getting worse," and management at the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health is growing "more chaotic," the plaintiffs' attorney said.

The county is under pressure to make changes to its jail system under the Mays Consent Decree of 2020, the result of a federal class action lawsuit brought by inmates against the county in 2019 ...