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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(KRON) — A suspected killer remains at-large after he was mistakenly released from jail in California, the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office said. The man’s whereabouts are unknown. Deputies ...

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

He spotted one of the escaped inmates going into a McDonald's. — -- One homeless man may have a roof over his head very soon after receiving $100,000 of a $150,000 reward from the Orange County ...