A sheriff who is a leading candidate for governor of California hid the causes of a mounting epidemic of jail deaths behind a culture of cover-up and retaliation, a former captain in the department ...
Facing a pending lawsuit from the California Attorney General's office over dire conditions in the jail system, officials at ...
Instead of building a watchdog with real authority, the final law preserved sheriff control at every critical point.’ ...
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 report by the Riverside County civil grand jury says errors by the Sheriff’s Department’s inmate screeners and flaws in the booking process resulted in a felon with a violent past mistakenly being ...
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who's now a leading candidate for governor of California, hid the causes of a mounting epidemic of jail deaths behind a culture of cover-up and retaliation, a ...
An attorney who sued the federal government alleged “crisis-level” conditions for the more than 1,000 people detained at the California City ICE facility.