The videos appear to bolster lawsuits claiming guards used force against California prisoners after they filed sexual harassment claims.

Five years after Jamall Brown died in a Riverside County California jail cell, his father learned the truth from leaked video ...

A state office created in 2024 to scrutinize local investigations into jail deaths has yet to complete a single review of the more than 150 people who have died in custody in California’s county jails ...

California counties are housing more than 1,100 inmates on long-term sentences in jails designed for stays of a year or less, according to the first report detailing the growth in that population ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - County jails that account for the vast majority of local inmates in California have seen a marked increase in violence since they began housing thousands of offenders who ...

Every five days, on average, someone dies in the jails of Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino or Riverside counties. Broken bodies, broken minds and substance abuse are at the root of most of the ...

A proposed state law offers non-violent offenders the chance to change ‘their lives, support their families and pay restitution to those they’ve harmed.’ ...