A class-action lawsuit seeks to end Riverside County's use of a cash bail system to detain people awaiting trial, alleging ...

Civil Rights Corps, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that has worked on matters related to cash bail and pretrial detention ...

Riverside County's cash bail system unconstitutionally keeps poor people in jail while those with money can buy their way out, a lawsuit claims.

The California Department of Justice has ... That leads to packing the jails and backlogs in the courts. Riverside County’s share of the jail population awaiting resolution of a felony case ...

Noting media coverage of Riverside County jail inmate deaths, she added: “He cannot keep the jails safe. He certainly can’t protect California. He’s just incompetent.” Before Monday’s ...

2025 Newly released videos and reports provide further evidence that sheriff’s deputies in Riverside County missed signs that a murder suspect awaiting trial at a Southern California jail was ...

Christopher Damien reported about law enforcement in Southern California’s inland and desert communities as part of The New York Times’s Local Investigations Fellowship. As two cellmates were fighting ...