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

Two others are fugitives from the law, according to the state Department of Justice. Three previously admitted their roles.

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA — The U.S. Justice Department and the Riverside County Sheriff's Department allege that a scheme to smuggle drugs into a local jail involved a conspiracy in which people ...

An investigation is underway after a man was found dead just about an hour after he was released from a jail in Riverside County ... news throughout Southern California. When he's not writing ...

Riverside County jails in California are experiencing a surge in ... leading to the death of a detainee on his first day in jail. The county's jails have the highest homicide rate among large ...

She said California was beautiful ... or confined for all but 15 to 45 minutes. “Riverside County jail system is amongst the most restrictive correctional settings I have visited,” Gage ...

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 ...

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 ...

That rate ranked the jail system, run by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, among the most lethal in the nation, and the second-most in California. The deaths included homicides ...