The Alameda County jail population went from a pre-pandemic average of 2,600 to about 1,775 people. More than 50 inmates and two staff have tested positive for the coronavirus, and all but 14 ...

Thirty-one of California’s 56 county jail systems have seen their inmate populations plummet by at least a third. Jails before the pandemic booked about 17,000 people per week.

They may be behind bars but inmates at one prison in California are doing their part to help their community with a needed item in the coronavirus pandemic.. The Placer County Sheriff's Office ...

Officials running Los Angeles County’s massive jail system, the world’s largest, plan to offer the vaccine to all 15,356 people in their custody under the state’s new guidelines.

An inmate in the Men's Central Jail in Santa Ana has tested positive for the coronavirus, the first Orange County inmate to do so, a sheriff's spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Inmates at the Monterey County Jail, afraid they could catch COVID-19 through their food, stopped eating meals last week. Jails and prisons are especially vulnerable to COVID-19 outbreaks ...

Riverside County jails, run by a tough-talking sheriff, has had more infections among inmates that any other county lockup in Southern California. But others pay the price.

The Shasta County Jail was going to release 13 inmates by 5 p.m. Monday to comply with a statewide emergency rule issued as a health precaution during the coronavirus crisis.

A California DA warned the public that seven “high-risk sex offenders” were freed from prison as the coronavirus pandemic has sparked early jail releases.