MERCED COUNTY, Calif. – Authorities in California say six inmates, including a man charged with murder, used a “homemade rope” to escape a jail over the weekend. The Merced County Sheriff’s Office ...

California prison officials are investigating the death of John Cisneros, 49, as a homicide after he was found unresponsive in his cell at a state prison.

A 38-year-old inmate died in custody following a medical emergency at a Southern California jail, authorities announced Wednesday. Corrections staff and jail medical personnel responded to one of the ...

The district attorney's office had filed the charge but the coroner's office has now confirmed the cause of death, officials ...

More than three dozen past and current inmates have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging male Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies sexually abused, harassed and routinely watched women shower in the ...

WESTMINSTER, Calif. -- Eyewitness News has learned that Bac Duong, one of three inmates who escaped from Orange County Men's Central Jail, is in custody. The circumstances surrounding Duong's capture ...

The lawmakers, including East Bay Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, said they were concerned about detention center conditions and deaths in ICE custody.