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

Those responding to the Los Angeles fires and working 24-hour shifts are earning $26.90 per day, according to the law enforcement agency. Inmates help firefighters to extinguish the last embers in ...

California Fires: Essential Phone Numbers For Los Angeles-area Residents And How You Can Help Them The Pitches Detention Center has three different facilities, one of which was already evacuated at ...

But for the 4,700 inmates at the facilities ... “We demand that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the Sheriff’s Department take swift action to protect the lives of the thousands ...

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 ...

A 22-year-old inmate died in a cluster of suspected overdoses on a jail bus early Friday, prompting Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials to halt court transports from the downtown ...

Robert Jensen, of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, urged people to evacuate immediately ... With the fire posing significant danger to the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic, around 500 ...

The fast-moving Hughes Fire has forced the partial evacuation of a 5,000+ inmate jail in Los Angeles.

Hundreds of inmates in California have reportedly been deployed to help fight the wildfires raging through Los Angeles and surrounding areas, drawing attention to California’s longstanding and ...