A fast-moving California fire has forced authorities to evacuate part of a 5,000-person jail in Los Angeles County. The ...

About 900 of them are prison inmates. Multiple blazes in the Los Angeles region have burned more than 40,000 acres, killed at least 24 people and displaced more than 100,000 others in less than ...

The Hughes fire broke out a little before 11 a.m., roughly five miles north of the Pitchess Detention Center. The Sheriff's ...

Authorities are searching for an inmate who they say walked away from ... Dean Fioresi is a web producer for CBS Los Angeles. He covers breaking news throughout Southern California.

Thousands of inmates at a Castaic jail complex were kept sheltered in place despite being within the evacuation zone of the 10,000-plus acre Hughes Fire that erupted Wednesday. The Hughes Fire was ...

An inmate housed at a Santa Ana intake center was found dead in his cell on Saturday morning, officials confirmed. The Newport Beach Police Department arrested and booked the man into jail on July ...

Waves of people imprisoned for crimes at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, were released from D.C.’s jail to cheers late ...

More than 1,000 California inmates have been fighting the wildfires, a controversial practice that dates back to 1915 and results from a complex intersection of public safety, labor economics, and ...