Pat McCarty says the 55-year-old was kind to everyone and didn't deserve what happened to her at the Contra Costa County main jail on Monday afternoon. That's when sheriffs says inmate Aaron Nygaard ...

A suspect in a deadly Seattle shooting was released from a Northern California jail by mistake on October 22, according to the Contra Costa Sheriff’s Office. Isaiah Jamon Andrews of Kent was being ...

The Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office reports that a man who reportedly threw a lit Molotov cocktail-type device into the lobby of the Contra Costa County jail in Martinez and then drove his van ...

A coroner's jury found that a 31-year-old jail inmate died of natural causes, Contra Costa County Sheriff David Livingston said Friday. Livingston, who also holds the post of coroner, announced the ...

Nicholas Jacobson had just been accused of murder when a raging infection nearly killed him. Left untreated for two weeks in a California jail, sepsis drove him into a coma as his organs started to ...