Amanda Bews was arrested last September after shoplifting from a Los Angeles-area liquor store. Within two days, she would be found unresponsive in a jail cell ... before booking, due to her ...

Three Los Angeles County inmates died in an nine-day period this month, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, a grim milestone that comes even as the county is facing ...

Many of the inmates only had one set of clothes ... noted in the report have already been address, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement to The Post.

Los Angeles County officials will launch an investigation into the soaring rate of deaths among people incarcerated in Los ...

A suspected drug overdose at a downtown Los Angeles jail left one man ... Inmate Reception Center of the Men's Central Jail in Chinatown saw some inmates experiencing some sort of "medical ...

A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy at Men's Central Jail was stabbed in the head when he tried to pull aside an inmate, and multiple assailants began punching and stomping on the deputy until ...

Up to one-third of those in Los Angeles ... the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department’s inmate transportation system has kept seven jails in the county system overcrowded with inmates who might ...

While searching the jail after an earlier "suspected overdose incident" that hospitalized seven inmates, Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies suffered related symptoms. Seven Los Angeles County ...