A man in a red hoodie jumped over fences and swiveled through alleys near 165th Avenue in San Leandro, fleeing a suspected ...

According to a Department of Justice report released earlier this year, about 40% of people at the Alameda County jails needed mental health treatment.

DUBLIN, Calif. - Yesenia Sanchez campaigned to be Alameda County's next sheriff promising a "transformational change" when she took helm, working to rehabilitate those held in the county jail and ...

Authorities in Alameda County said they rescued a 3-month-old baby girl and arrested six people during the bust of an alleged ...

The county Board of Supervisors approved the contract in a 4-0 vote. Supervisor Nikki Fortunado Bas abstained from the vote, ...

This was routine for Davis, who had cycled in and out of Alameda County’s main jail over the years, either awaiting trial or serving sentences for minor charges like drug possession and joyriding.

OAKLAND — Alameda County’s north county jail, Glenn E. Dyer in Oakland, will be closed in a cost-savings measure, the sheriff’s office confirmed Friday. The jail, located near the Wiley ...

A nurse at an Alameda County jail is claiming staff is overworked and potentially risking the quality of care after a health care provider that serves the jails laid ...

Wellpath, the company that provides health care services at Santa Rita Jail, will pay $2.3 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed its staff failed to provide adequate care to a man with ...

The Alameda County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to reduce the jail time for spectators within 200 feet of a sideshow from 6 months to 3 months.

In Alameda County, just across the bay from San Francisco, 45 sheriff’s deputies have had their guns taken away.