Newsom is praising some counties and blasting others as they carry out his signature mental health initiative in the courts.

The State Criminal Alien Assistance Program reimburses local jails and prisons for the costs of detaining undocumented ...

The Island is now among an elite group of “bicycle-friendly” U.S. towns. Also, the county grand jury is seeking applicants.

L.A. County's supervisors called on the Sheriff's Department to implement new health and safety measures after 10 inmate ...

Voters approved Measure W, a half-cent general sales tax, in November 2020. It was projected to raise $1.8 billion over 10 ...

OPINION: The Alameda Health System plans to shutter two of the only intensive outpatient treatment programs in the county available to indigent individuals with serious mental illness.

Lawyers representing people in San Diego County jails have reached a settlement in a key part of a long-running class-action lawsuit that will require Sheriff Kelly Martinez to improve the level of ...

A federal jury has found Riverside County sheriff’s deputies and jail medical staff were not negligent in the death of a mentally ill inmate who was fatally injured at the Cois M. Byrd Detention ...

Alameda County Superior Court now has more caseworkers to help defendants find housing and jobs as they await trial. The goal is to give these people, roughly 3,000 a year, support so that they don't ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inmates seen inside the Harris County Jail on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, in Houston. (Godofredo A. Vásquez/Staff photographer) A new ...

Shawna Jeanguenat was 5 months pregnant with her second child when she was detained in the LaSalle County Jail in Illinois on drug-related charges in 2019. She was later transferred on a separate ...

Authorities say that Dannon Black administered Ketamine – a dissociative anesthetic used in medical settings for sedation – ...