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.

Police have arrested two accused sexual assailants who attacked several victims in San Jose and Milpitas in the span of a few days this past week.

San Jose’s police union pulled its endorsement of retired undersheriff John Hirokawa’s campaign to unseat his former boss, Sheriff Laurie Smith.

A man believed to have killed Arlis Perry in 1974 reportedly shot himself to death this morning as police closed in on his apartment.

Retired Undersheriff John Hirokawa has changed his mind about whether the county should have fired one of his biggest supporters.

California’s biggest public safety organization, PORAC, parted ways with twice-demoted deputy and DSA union boss Don Morrissey.

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

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

Sheriff Smith making herself inaccessible to reporters comes amid criticism that she’s also disengaged from constituents.

Parents of Sierra LaMar, who was murdered by Antolin Garcia Torres, found little comfort in the life sentence he received.

Santa Clara County will base pretrial detention decisions on an algorithm. Meanwhile, a crackdown on the bail industry uncovered millions in lost fees.

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

We don’t know that the stolen car barreling down a residential street lined with grade schools contains two minors, one just 13 years old.

With no evidence of a Big Game-related spike, the crackdown on trafficked humans more often than not targets sex workers and consenting adults.

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Inmates are dying, jail guards are breaking laws and sending racist texts, and worse, some may even be raping the men and women behind bars.