The city of Durango is dropping its lawsuits against La Plata County Sheriff Sean Smith and the La Plata County Board of ...

After failing to force the La Plata County Jail to accept municipal inmates with a court order, the city of Durango will manage people sentenced on municipal charges itself. Durango City Council ...

The grand jury has indicted Michelle Lee Cormier, 44, a Jefferson County Jail Inmate, for Murder in the fentanyl overdose ...

The inmates were moved to another facility on the jail's campus ... about their displacement." The L.A. County Public Defender's Union, Los Angeles People's City Council and Justice LA posted ...

The estate and brother of a 32-year-old woman who allegedly died at the hands of another inmate at the Los Angeles County ...

The amount the county paid to outside attorneys rose 18% from the previous year to $75 million — nearly double what the ...

County jails may be able to improve access to medical care and lower death rates behind bars through healthcare accreditation, according to new research by Harvard University economists — but inmates ...

A fast-moving California fire has forced authorities to evacuate part of a 5,000-person jail in Los Angeles County. The Hughes Fire, which broke out Wednesday afternoon in Castaic, is 0 percent ...

These medications are life and death for someone coming out of custody and in that state,” said Mary Taylor, a clinical ...

The Hughes wildfire in LA County has prompted Red flag warnings and evacuation orders across Southern California ...

LA County Sheriff Robert Luna said around 500 inmates were being evacuated from one jail and taken to another facility. Inmates at two jails made from concrete were not in harms way, said Luna ...