Giant billboards, a mobile ad with video and digital messages and TV spots are part of a media blitz launched at a rally in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday, Oct. 16 by several groups demanding ...

Re “In unusual rebuke of sheriff, medical examiner rules diabetic man’s jail death a homicide by neglect” (Sept. 20): It saddened me to read the accounts of the in-custody deaths of Keith Galen Bach ...

An inmate leans out the bars of his cell at Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles in 2005. (Brian Vander Brug/Los Angeles Times) Mary Veral caught one whiff of the smoky air and wrinkled her nose ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Activists are renewing their push to close ...

This is the day Los Angeles County’s dungeon was supposed to close. But Men’s Central Jail appears to be no nearer to shutting down than it was on March 30, 2021, when county officials appointed by ...

An inmate’s death Tuesday morning at the Men’s Central Jail in Los Angeles has prompted an investigation by homicide ...

An inmate at the Men's Central Jail in Los Angeles died Tuesday morning, prompting a homicide investigation. The man's death ...

Violence erupted at Ludhiana Central Jail on Tuesday. Inmates attacked jail officials, including Superintendent Kulwant Singh ...

Peace was restored at Ludhiana Central Jail a day after a violent clash between inmates on Tuesday evening.Twenty-four ...