A fast-moving California fire has forced authorities to evacuate part of a 5,000-person jail in Los ... evacuation of Pitchess inmates. "We demand that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors ...

A 22-year-old inmate died in a cluster of suspected overdoses on a jail bus early Friday, prompting Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials to halt court transports from the downtown ...

Nine of the jails were in California, but they all had average daily populations between 100 and 3,000, meaning the Los Angeles jails — which average around 12,800 inmates per day — were not ...

California Department of Corrections officials in Acton are alerting neighboring communities of an inmate who escaped on ...

The estate and brother of a 32-year-old woman who allegedly died at the hands of another inmate at the Los Angeles County ...

(Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department) Although they were located within that evacuation zone, a lack of operational buses made evacuating the 4,700 inmates at the jail complex difficult ...

The fire came with the greater Los Angeles area still suffering after two enormous fires that killed more than two dozen ...

Another 23,000 people were under evacuation warnings after the Hughes Fire erupted at 10:53 a.m. Wednesday near Castaic Lake in northern Los Angeles County ... of 4,700 jail inmates in four ...

The Hughes fire near Castaic Lake in northern Los Angeles County began Wednesday morning ... called for the immediate evacuation of 4,700 jail inmates in four facilities around the lake that ...

By Amanda Musa, Emma Tucker, Robert Shackelford and Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — Firefighters are tackling a new brush fire — ...