SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Calif. — A deputy with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office died in a Christmas Eve crash Wednesday morning. The sheriff's office said Deputy James Caravallo died in a crash while ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to the identification ...

The man, wanted in connection with a possible shooting, barricaded himself inside a home on Fieldpoppy Circle, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said.

On the longest night of the year, Sacramento advocates and residents gather at Cesar Chavez Park to honor 175 unhoused people who have died in 2025.

Austin Animal Services is considering using state jail inmates to clean kennels, a proposal that has raised safety and ethical concerns among staff and the ACLU.

Six Kootenai County Jail inmates were taken to the hospital Saturday after they showed signs of overdosing on fentanyl, according to the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff’s officials say they ...

Over six years ago, California’s Legislature quietly tucked a sweeping mental-health diversion law into a 900-page budget bill, bypassing voters entirely, and handed dangerous offenders what some ...

Two more inmates died inside the Harris County Jail this week, according to a spokesperson for the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, bringing the jail’s in-custody death total to 18 this year. The ...

Two men died Wednesday in the Harris County Jail, bringing the total number of in-custody deaths this year to 18, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office. Kerry Parks, 63, and Tony Davis, 66, ...

After nearly a month in the hospital, an inmate of the Shelby County women's jail, referred to as Jail East, has died, the Shelby County Sheriff's Office confirmed. Tiffany Dukes, 45, was brought to ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Chris Mack has been locked up in Mississippi’s Rankin County Jail on and off since he ...

High-ranking inmates known as trusties were ordered to do guards’ bidding, former inmates and guards said, and the culture of violence in the jail went straight to the top. By Brian HoweyMukta Joshi ...