A fast-moving California fire has forced authorities to evacuate part of a 5,000-person jail in Los Angeles County. The Hughes Fire, which broke out Wednesday afternoon in Castaic, is 0 percent ...

The inmates were moved to another facility on the jail's campus ... The L.A. County Public Defender's Union, Los Angeles People's City Council and Justice LA posted to social media advocating ...

The amount the county paid to outside attorneys rose 18% from the previous year to $75 million — nearly double what the ...

The Hughes fire broke out a little before 11 a.m., roughly five miles north of the Pitchess Detention Center. The Sheriff's Department has struggled with a shortage of buses to transport inmates.

A Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy who was recorded violently tackling and pepper-spraying a woman while she filmed a man being handcuffed was found guilty of excessive force Thursday, according to ...

As of Friday, 939 prison inmates have been deployed by the California ... the fires had scorched more than 55 square miles across the Los Angeles area. At least 10 people are dead, and more ...

Robert Jensen, of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, urged people to evacuate immediately ... With the fire posing significant danger to the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic, around 500 ...

Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter of Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei ... that he might be deported to Japan following his jail term.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Over 1,100 California prisoners have worked around the clock in challenging conditions to help Cal Fire ...

The Los Angeles Police Department has arrested ... for an outstanding felony warrant for arson before booking them into the Van Nuys jail, McDonnell said. The second person was arrested Monday ...