The Alameda County Sheriff's Office wants to end parts of the Santa Rita Jail consent decree about three years ... in U.S. District Court in Northern California. Lawyers for Sheriff Yesenia ...

Court-appointed monitors of Sacramento County jails say a man’s fatal overdose was one of multiple deaths in which deputies ...

The decree would settle a class-action lawsuit from defendants, who, in some cases, spent more time in jail awaiting ...

A consent decree and a new sheriff are some reasons the jail is making reforms ... number of in-custody deaths in all of Northern California. Plus, over the last decade, the Alameda County ...

Metro government is asking a federal judge to approve Louisville's consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice.

The proposed consent decree provides for an independent monitor to assess the jail’s implementation of its requirements and to provide a public report every six months. The county's main jail ...

The decree would settle a class-action lawsuit from defendants, who, in some cases, spent more time in jail awaiting competency restoration treatment than any sentence they would have received for ...

Jail staff members claimed he was faking illness, and the Sheriff’s Office told the California Department ... the county jails as part of a 2020 consent decree in a federal lawsuit.