After a preliminary decision to close Men’s Central Jail, viewed as an outdated, inhumane facility, was issued about six years ago, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors are still talking about ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Subscribe to LA Public Press to get stories like this in your inbox every week. As county considers a $50.3 billion budget, a ...

Celia Banos calls her son, Jhean, a born musician. Ever since he was a little boy, Jhean loved music. He learned the guitar, and after high school, he played in a band called The Parallels. At the age ...

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 ...

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 ...

Female inmates at the Los Angeles County jail celebrated Christmas Day mass with LA County Sheriff Robert Luna and Archbishop Jose Gomez Thursday. The mass was held at the Century Regional Detention ...