After four years of discussion and delays, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday is set to consider whether to ...

He was “subjected to not only a deadly but lengthy attack without it ever being heard or observed,” the lawsuit filed in ...

The family of a schizophrenic man who was suffocated to death at Santa Rita Jail filed a wrongful death suit Wednesday in U.S ...

The mother of a mentally ill El Cerrito man filed a wrongful death suit last week against Alameda County alleging he was ...

Abrion William McElmore, 30, had been in custody since Sept. 9, 2022, when Alameda County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested ...

While incarcerated Californians who aren’t serving felony sentences are eligible to vote, most county jails don’t make it ...

The mother of a mentally ill El Cerrito man filed a wrongful death suit last week against Alameda County alleging he was brutally killed at the Santa Rita Jail just 46 minutes after deputies ...

Detectives are investigating the death of a Santa Rita Jail inmate found unresponsive in his cell on Aug. 24. Abrion William McElmore, 30, had been in custody since Sept. 9, 2022, when Alameda ...

Yuri Brand, 39, who had schizophrenia, was jailed on a non-violent offense at the Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County, where staff knew of his diagnosis and housed him with the facility’s general ...

This provided photo shows Yuri Brand with his mother, Erica Edgerly, who has filed a federal lawsuit over his death at Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County in September 2023. Pointer & Buelna ...

Yuri Brand, 39, who had schizophrenia, was jailed on a non-violent offense at the Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County, where staff knew of his diagnosis and housed him with the facility’s general ...