A 51-year-old inmate died Friday after jailors found him passed out in his cell at Elmwood, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Under pressure from the feds and mounting political outrage over “Sanctuary Cities,” the county may revise its civil detainer policy.

South Bay leaders on Veterans Day unveiled a campaign to get hundreds of homeless veterans off the streets.

An oversight board tasked with examining Santa Clara County jails decided against disbanding, despite concerns that a parallel probe would undermine its work.

A commission assigned to investigate local jails meets Saturday. Its first order of business: deciding whether to call the whole thing off.

A San Jose restaurant linked to a Shigella outbreak that sickened nearly 200 people has been cleared to reopen, officials announced Thursday.

As of this week, Santa Clara County will no longer collect a $40 fee from people who appeal their property assessment.

A deputy’s confounding decision to turn away a murder suspect placed Santa Clara County’s troubled jails in the national spotlight.

In response to the beating death of a mentally ill inmate, Santa Clara County will make require crisis intervention training for sheriff’s deputies.

The owner of a local collective claims California's new marijuana regulations violate the state's constitution.

San Jose's retired civilian police auditor, LaDoris Cordell, will lead a task force assigned to investigate Santa Clara County's jails.

Public health officials say at least 182 people have been sickened by a bacterial infection after eating at a San Jose seafood restaurant.

In her latest project, journalist Kristin Schreier Lyseggen offers a rare glimpse of the trauma inflicted upon trans women behind bars.

A longtime employee claims that owners of the Los Gatos nudist resort effectively reduced dozens of live-in workers to indentured servitude.

Santa Clara County is trying to hire more psychiatrists after years of leaving the jails understaffed.

A sweeping package of bills signed by Gov. Jerry Brown will transform California’s billion-dollar medical marijuana sector.