T he County of Sacramento is trying to spend $1 billion in taxpayer money — no, that’s not a typo — to add a new mental health annex to the County Jail in Downtown Sacramento.

The main jail in downtown Sacramento is a nightmare in every way. These experts give Bee Opinion Editor Marcos Bretón ideas for reducing the jail population or closing the obsolete building.

Altogether, homeless people spent 20 days in jail on camping charges, according to records analyzed by The Bee.

On Sept. 15, Kenneth Hinkson, 55, of Sacramento, died while being held at the downtown Main Jail on “a commitment warrant for a theft-related” charge.

Smiley Martin, one of two brothers held on murder charges in the mass shooting that killed six people and wounded 12 others in a deadly gun battle in downtown Sacramento in April 2022, was found ...

Smiley Martin, the suspect in the 2022 downtown shooting that killed 6 people, was found dead in his Sacramento County sheriff’s jail cell.

SACRAMENTO — A Sacramento County sheriff's deputy who was seen on camera shoving a woman to the ground outside the jail was recently terminated from his position, authorities said Thursday. The ...

One of the suspects in the mass shooting in downtown Sacramento, California, that killed six people in 2022 was found dead in a jail cell, his attorney said Sunday.. At about 2:15 a.m. on Saturday ...

On Saturday, the Sheriff’s Office found him unresponsive in his jail cell, sources told The Sacramento Bee. Nathaniel Levine [email protected] ...