A potentially deadly situation was averted in California last week after the heroic actions of police helped to save the life ...

Jose Miguel Perez, of Corona, was sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison for possessing over 5 kilograms of cocaine ...

Santa Clara County jails have recorded an all-time peak in COVID-19 infections, and officials are pondering a batch release of inmates akin to efforts at the start of the pandemic.

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.

The three buildings — the 1200 Baker Street jail, the 701 N. San Jacinto jail and the Joint Processing Center — comprise the second-largest jail in the U.S., including around 2,000 employees.

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 ...

In Orange County, central jail inmate Kenny Rios said he believed for days that he had contracted the coronavirus. He was in the same barrack as an inmate who tested positive.

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 ...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has reduced the number of inmates in its jails by more than 600 people amid concerns over the coronavirus pandemic. To halt coronavirus, L.A. County ...

Juan Corona, the ‘machete ... 5 feet long and 2 feet wide in his Sutter County, California, orchard on May 19, 1971. ... He grew suspicious and called the sheriff’s office.