Weeks before it was scheduled to go before a federal jury, San Diego County has agreed to a strikingly expensive end to a long-running lawsuit that stemmed from a chilling …
An inmate held at Sacramento County Main Jail died early Saturday, Sheriff’s officials announced, the third reported death at the downtown facility since May. The man, 29, was discovered about …
By RYAN J. FOLEY, CARLA K. JOHNSON and SHELBY LUM | Associated Press Demetrio Jackson was desperate for medical help when the paramedics arrived. The 43-year-old was surrounded by police …
People are dying in custody at record rates across California. They’re dying in big jails and small jails, in red counties and blue counties, in rural holding cells and downtown …
Renuka Rayasam | (TNS) KFF Health News It was about midnight in June 2022 when police officers showed up at Angela Collier’s door and told her that someone anonymously requested …
PLACERVILLE — A lawsuit filed by the family of a man who died after being held in a Northern California jail alleges he contracted a preventable viral infection there when …
REDWOOD CITY — A man died while in custody at Maguire Correctional Facility’s detox unit on Sunday morning in Redwood City, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office. According …
Former Southern California News Group columnist David Whiting is suing the Orange County Sheriff’s Department for the apparent in-custody suicide of his 35-year-old son in 2022. David Whiting’s son, Sean, …
An ex-Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy who was sentenced to death for fatally shooting a Yorba Linda supermarket manager during a robbery in 1994 died on Wednesday in his San …