Prosecutors say Loc Ba Nguyen smuggled items into the Central Men's Jail. — -- New details have emerged in the escape of three inmates from a maximum security California jail on Jan. 22 on what ...

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. -- Authorities in California are searching for six inmates who accessed a 20-foot high roof and escaped from the Merced County Jail Saturday night. "They used that makeshift rope ...

U.S. Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi, shown at a news conference Tuesday, said she looks "forward to cooperating with California's county sheriffs." (Julia Demaree Nikhinson / Associated Press) The U.S. Justice ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. -- The investigation of a daring California jail break has led to the arrests of five people, with more expected soon, but the three inmates who escaped remain at large, the Orange ...

Nicholas Jacobson had just been accused of murder when a raging infection nearly killed him. Left untreated for two weeks in a California jail, sepsis drove him into a coma as his organs started to ...

Jail administrators in L.A., Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties struggle to meet the needs of a population that is ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)—California counties are housing more than 1,100 inmates on long-term sentences in jails designed for stays of a year or less, according to the first report detailing the growth ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- An inmate in solitary confinement at a California jail was refusing to leave his cell. The jailers' usual response: Send an "extraction team" of corrections officers to burst ...

SANTA ANA, CA -- Three jail inmates, including a suspected murderer, escaped from a California jail, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Department. Hossein Nayeri, 37, Jonathan Tieu, 20, and Bac ...

There's an inconspicuous metal box mounted on the wall of the gym at San Francisco County Jail No. 4. When Kate Monico Klein turns a knob, the machine releases a condom in a small cardboard packet.

He spotted one of the escaped inmates going into a McDonald's. — -- One homeless man may have a roof over his head very soon after receiving $100,000 of a $150,000 reward from the Orange County ...