Flames from the Hughes fire came within a mile of the Castaic jails before firefighters pushed them back. Inmate advocates ...

The amount the county paid to outside attorneys rose 18% from the previous year to $75 million — nearly double what the ...

The inmates were moved to another facility on the jail's campus ... about their displacement." The L.A. County Public Defender's Union, Los Angeles People's City Council and Justice LA posted ...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's 38-year-old computer-aided dispatch system had also gone down New Year's Eve with a Y2k-style glitch. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Scott Carter ...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement Thursday that Kirk has been relieved of duty without pay. “These actions are completely contrary to the values and standards ...

A fast-moving California fire has forced authorities to evacuate part of a 5,000-person jail in Los ... Detention Center inmates, according to L.A. County Sheriff Robert Luna. California Fires: ...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's aging dispatch system crashed again roughly a month after the program suffered a similar glitch. Unlike last time, the agency fixed the issue later ...

In 2017, Matthew Beck, a 26-year-old inmate, was killed when a 120-foot tree fell on him during a firefighting operation in Humboldt County. Beck, who was nearing the end of his sentence ...