The closure of Los Angeles County’s Men’s Central Jail will be a herculean task, requiring numerous steps over time to empty the jail population, including total cooperation from multiple county ...

For the first time in two years, Los Angeles County has stayed in compliance with a court order requiring it to address overcrowding and horrific conditions inside its Inmate Reception Center, the ...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department, calling conditions inside its jails a "humanitarian crisis.” The backstory: In 2021, the Attorney General’s Office ...

With lawsuits in recent years involving deputy cliques and community members calling for the closure of the deteriorating Men ...

Ten people have already died in Los Angeles County’s jails since the start of the year, putting the average at one death every five days and well ahead of the total by this time last year. Th county ...

LA County Jail is so nasty that one former inmate says it makes you -nostalgic for prison.- Five inmate killings in the past seven months have focused a spotlight on LA-s overcrowded jails. District ...