The Hughes fire broke out a little before 11 a.m., roughly five miles north of the Pitchess Detention Center. The Sheriff's ...

A fast-moving California fire has forced authorities to evacuate part of a 5,000-person jail in Los Angeles County. The ...

The Hughes Fire near Castaic, north of Los Angeles, was 24% contained on Thursday afternoon, according to Cal Fire.

A 51-year-old man fell ill while in custody in the Theo Lacy Facility in Orange and died in a hospital Friday. The man, whose name was not immediately released as investigators work to notify all of ...

Incarcerated people in California have helped put out the fires in Los Angeles. One man, deported to Mexico for his crimes, ...

In 2017, Matthew Beck, a 26-year-old inmate, was killed when a 120-foot tree fell on him during a firefighting operation in Humboldt County. Beck, who was nearing the end of his sentence ...

Roughly 31,000 people were ordered to flee an area north of Los Angeles on Wednesday, Jan. 22, after a fast-moving wildfire exploded, growing to more than 8,000 acres within hours, officials said.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department sought the public’s assistance Thursday in locating a 29-year-old man diagnosed with depression who was last seen in Rosamond. Carlos Antonio Velasquez was ...

The Orange County Sheriff’s Department, the Orange County district attorney’s office and the feds reached an agreement on the use of informants in jail. The agreement comes in response to a ...

Today, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the state forestry department and the Los Angeles County fire department operate 35 "fire camps" where inmates can become ...