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All 3,000 sworn officers in the department, regardless of rank, were ordered to work at least one shift per month in the county's juvenile halls to help alleviate a staffing crisis

The injunction prohibited inmates from being chained to a front bench for more than four hours and required that the center be kept sanitary

The DOJ wants a judge to intervene because the county hasn't complied with a court judgment for two years

Guillermo Viera Rosa will join the Los Angeles Probation Department during a time of turmoil

The plan had surprised the union and even drew criticism from justice reformers

Maurice Hastings was released from prison last year after long-untested DNA evidence pointed to a different suspect

Sheriff Robert Luna said he felt "just sadness" after hearing reports of the mistreatment and poor conditions inside the jails

In 2022, over 6,700 phones were seized, which were used to traffic in drugs, collect money and orchestrate murders, according to testimony

Deputies were transporting the inmate on the 5 freeway when he broke free from the patrol car

The L.A. County Sheriff’s Department is barred from holding a person in the jail system’s inmate reception center for more than 24 hours

Inspectors from the Board of State and Community Corrections found that youths were being held in isolation longer than necessary

Sheriff Alex Villanueva has criticized the plan to close the jail without a replacement

Sheriff Alex Villanueva attended the service Tuesday with nearly 200 inmates of Los Angeles' Men's Central Jail

After a backlash to immigration enforcement in U.S. jails, local sheriffs' agencies are coming up with new ways to assist federal efforts to ensure immigrants with serious criminal convictions aren't released back onto the streets