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 ...

Jail administrators in L.A., Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties struggle to meet the needs of a population that is ...

Homicide detectives responded to Los Angeles’ Men’s Central Jail Tuesday morning to investigate the death of a male inmate, ...

In the past six years, 478 people have died under the care of the Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino County jails. To better understand that figure, the Southern California News Group ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)—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 ...

There's an inconspicuous metal box mounted on the wall of the gym at San Francisco County Jail No. 4. When Kate Monico Klein turns a knob, the machine releases a condom in a small cardboard packet.