In a unanimous vote Tuesday, the county Board of Supervisors reinforced its commitment to build a new mental health facility.

Organizers say they’re also staging the action in solidarity with protests against racist policing in Santa Clara County and throughout the U.S.

A quiet push to give local prosecutors on-demand access to inmate phone calls has ignited a controversy over checks and balances.

What would have been a milestone for social justice advocates instead exposed deep divisions in the criminal justice movement.

Jose Mesa Velasquez, the artist whose East Side mural was painted over last week, says the property owner gave him no warning.

Sometime before dawn Wednesday, a handyman painted over the oldest mural in San Jose, a three-decade-old panorama of Chicano culture.

A 53-year-old Santa Clara County inmate was pronounced dead at 7:33pm on this past Sunday at the Main Jail in San Jose.

Hundreds of Santa Clara County inmates have commenced their 10th day of a hunger strike over jail conditions.

After calling off a planned hunger strike, Santa Clara County inmates began refusing food anyway to protest comments by Sheriff Smith.

Activists rallied today to protest plans by the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office to arm jail and patrol deputies with Tasers.