A cadre of civil rights groups brought a lawsuit late Wednesday challenging Riverside County's use of cash bail to detain people as they await trial, citing squalid conditions inside the county's ...

A 53-year-old man died Thursday while in custody at a Riverside County jail in Murrieta ... was found by deputies inside a housing unit cell at the Cois M. Byrd Detention Center.

Christopher Damien reported about law enforcement in Southern California’s inland and desert communities as part of The New York Times’s Local Investigations Fellowship. As two cellmates were ...

Inside, the officer found ... on more than 75 department reports, photos and videos of the deaths, internal documents detailing jail staffing and interviews with current and former employees. The ...

Riverside County jails are plagued with some of the nation's highest murder rates and repeated security failures, an investigation shows. News Today's news US Politics World Tech Audio Computing ...

A Desert Sun-New York Times investigation digs into six homicides in Riverside County jails, finding patterns of security lapses and negligence. Some guards were inexperienced or insufficiently ...