An expensive spike in the number of inmates at the Orange County Jail is causing county leaders to re-examine cost saving measures. According to Orange County, in 2024, total jail bookings were ...

The inmate population at the Orange County Jail is surging, officials say, with a new state law aimed at getting the homeless off the streets threatening to push the numbers higher. Faced with the ...

homeless advocates and legal experts convened Friday for the first in a series of meetings to look into the increase in the inmate population at the Orange County Jail.

16, of using excessive force when pouring hot water on the arm of a mentally ill inmate to get him to pull his hands back into his Orange County jail cell. Guadalupe Ortiz was acquitted of a ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Three inmates escaped from a Southern California maximum-security jail sometime between their 5AM and 8PM headcount on Friday, January 22. Produced by Jacqui Frank ...

But between 2001 and 2024, the county’s population increased by about 560,000 people, while the daily booking average decreased by about 27%, even including the recent rise. The Jail Oversight ...

An Orange County inmate died during ... s Department said the 72-year-old inmate was booked into the Theo Lacy Facility, a maximum security jail, on Mar. 9, 2019. The inmate’s name is being ...