Transfers out of the county’s Inmate Reception Center have been sped up, access to medical care expanded and cleaning crews ...

Los Angeles County officials endorsed a proposal Tuesday to create a plan to close down the county's largest jail complex within a year amid escalating costs to maintain the aging facility.

Los Angeles County officials have signed a $329,500 agreement with a consulting firm to research whether it can downsize its jail construction plans. The contract with Lansing, Mich.-based Health ...

The inmates were disproportionately African American -- 43% of the jail population compared with 10% in the county. Most inmates were single women with children under age 18.

Roughly 30% of inmates in county jail suffer from mental illness and are either housed in special units and/or prescribed psychotropic drugs, according to the RAND Corp. study that was presented to ...