Santa Clara County has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by former inmate Rikki Martinez, who says he was brutally beaten by jail guards.

A powerful union leader violated agency policies by failing to report hate speech—and the former undersheriff leapt to his defense.

Three Santa Clara County jail guards convicted of fatally beating a mentally ill inmate will serve 15 years to life in prison.

Santa Clara County will consider whether to create a civilian watchdog division to keep an eye on its troubled jails.

Two Santa Clara County inmates who broke out of the Main Jail in San Jose the day before Thanksgiving are still on the lam, authorities said.

Despite opposition from law enforcement, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a new law last month that protects voting rights for felons in county jails.

A former Santa Clara County jail guard was arrested on suspicion of beating an inmate years ago, raising concerns about what took so long.

A Santa Clara County jail guard has been suspended from work after his arrest Monday on suspicion of molesting a child in 2012.

It wasn’t until December, under mounting public pressure, that the Sheriff's Office disclosed its jail use-of-force and cell extraction policies.

An oversight board tasked with examining Santa Clara County jails decided against disbanding, despite concerns that a parallel probe would undermine its work.

A commission assigned to investigate local jails meets Saturday. Its first order of business: deciding whether to call the whole thing off.

San Jose's retired civilian police auditor, LaDoris Cordell, will lead a task force assigned to investigate Santa Clara County's jails.

Santa Clara County is trying to hire more psychiatrists after years of leaving the jails understaffed.

Santa Clara County is accepting applications for a commission that will examine local jails in response to the fatal beating of a mentally ill inmate.

Officials investigating the death of a Santa Clara County inmate found no evidence of foul play, though they did not determine a definitive cause of death.

A month after an inmate’s fatal beating at Santa Clara County’s Main Jail, another inmate has been found dead.