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2017 Year in Review: A Record-Setting Year We’d Like to Forget

And we thought 2016 was bad. The last 12 months have been record setting in all the wrong ways. Take a quick look back and then move on.

Santa Clara County inmates are set to refuse food to protest what they call the arbitrary use of solitary confinement and other jail conditions.

Sheriff candidate Joseph LaJeunesse may have put in 14 years at the Santa Clara County law enforcement agency, but he still feels like an outsider.

Activists rallied today to protest plans by the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office to arm jail and patrol deputies with Tasers.

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

Santa Clara County asked a judge to block President Trump’s order to slash funds for locales that refuse to enforce immigration laws.

San Jose Inside published its annual Year in Review list last week. Now we give you our prognostications of what’s to come in 2017.

The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office formed a task force to prevent people who face evictions from ending up on the streets.

Two inmates who broke out of Santa Clara County jail the day before Thanksgiving will face additional charges after their re-capture.

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.

Santa Clara County inmates suspended a hunger strike over solitary confinement Friday after a discussion with jail officials.

The union for Santa Clara County sheriff deputies has come out in support of jail inmates staging a two-week hunger strike.

Santa Clara County inmates kicked off a hunger strike to protest solitary confinement and what they see as a gap between policy and practice.

Two Santa Clara County jail guards have been charged with beating a shackled inmate, the District Attorney’s Office announced Monday.

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

A new report traces some of the problems at Santa Clara County’s jails to a lack of staffing, training, funding and a deeply divided work culture.