AFTER WOBBLING ON THE IDEA for years, Santa Clara County leaders are struggling with how big the new jail should be when the incarcerated population has ...

The road outside the Santa Fe County Jail fell into the national spotlight earlier this year due to the number of inmates who ...

The Santa Cruz Police Department arrested a suspect who faces accusations of entering a home in the Seabright neighborhood ...

Santa Cruz police have arrested a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman inside her home in midtown on Tuesday night.

The 2024-25 Santa Barbara County Grand Jury conducted an investigation into the living conditions for female inmates in local ...

In a better world it would be rather touching, the way that for many years now — for decades — the members of the Los Angeles ...

On Tuesday, the Santa Barbara County Grand Jury released the results of its investigation of three in-custody deaths at ...

Pima County does not specify in its bills to the city how many inmates have sentences of 10 days or more, so the city does not know how many would be sent to Santa Cruz, Durkin said.

UPDATED: August 16, 2023 at 2:08 PM PDT SANTA CRUZ — A Santa Cruz County Jail inmate found in medical distress died of an as-of-yet undetermined cause, authorities said.

Jail staff at the 259 Water St. facility discovered an inmate in an undisclosed type of “medical distress” after 7:45 a.m., according to a media release from the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — The Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office is trying to prevent an outbreak among its inmate population after several of their correctional officers tested positive for COVID-19.

SANTA CRUZ — At least 12 inmates at the Santa Cruz County Jail are under quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19 since Friday, according to the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office.