A gang member was caught smuggling drugs into Los Angeles County’s main jail. He was, authorities say, just one cog in the Mexican Mafia’s lucrative operation in the county jails. Oct. 27, 2022 ...

A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy is among the 18 people indicted by a grand jury this week in a “sophisticated” drug smuggling operation within the County jail system. Los ...

In 2015, years after it was cited for mistreating people in jail with a mental illness, L.A. County entered into a settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice.

The board’s action sets up a Jail Inpatient Unit, also known as the Acute Intervention Module, at the county jail at 450 Bauchet St., in Chinatown in Los Angeles.