Flames from the Hughes fire came within a mile of the Castaic jails before firefighters pushed them back. Inmate advocates ...

Two inmates were determined to walk away from the Jim E Hamilton Correctional Center in Hodgen, Oklahoma, at 11:15 a.m., ...

A Los Angeles police sergeant was arrested in connection with a hit-and-run that killed a 19-year-old man early Saturday ...

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

Last week, President Trump signed into law the Laken Riley Act, which requires the attorney general to detain any non-citizen ...

Arson arrests in the wake of the LA Fires have put a spotlight on the question of why people deliberately set fires. It turns out the answer isn’t a simple one.

Kamara, 29, had run away from a hospital in Encinitas an hour before he was arrested. Law enforcement had been asked to return him for treatment, his family’s lawsuit says.

Inmates involved in jail attack face charges Advocates say jail safety needs to be reexamined Victim in the jail attack is on life support and is in critical condition SAN JOSE, Calif.

The vast majority of those offenses were committed by the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department (LASD), which was responsible for 6,789 of the violations. The LASD committed thousands of abuses by ...

Officer: Now it does." That arrest, is now making the message clear all the way from Los Angeles to Sacramento County. Inmates are taking notice. The Sacramento Sheriff's Department took to social ...

Evacuation orders and warnings were issued to more than 31,000 people in the vicinity of two new wildfires north of Los Angeles on ... evacuation of 4,700 jail inmates in four facilities around ...

Firefighters are battling a fast-moving blaze in southern California that has swelled over the past day, with authorities warning that Thursday is "the period of greatest concern". The Hughes fire ...