Silicon Valley is known for technological innovation, but its jails are running on paper — and it’s fueling a public safety ...

SAN JOSE — A federal judge has advanced a lawsuit that questions suicide-prevention policies in Santa Clara ... a county jail ...

two Santa Clara County supervisors are proposing the public release of a confidential investigative report into county jail operations. The report is related to an inmate who became incapacitated ...

Raj Jayadev, founder of Silicon Valley DeBug, speaks to protesters gathered at Santa Clara County Main Jail in San Jose on Aug. 27, 2021 ... is that 50% of inmates in the county are people ...

Santa Clara County jail deaths reached a 20-year high in 2024 ... “Advocates have pointed out that this may lead to an ...

Regal's family focused its lawsuit on the lack of suicide resistant cells, which the jail agreed to build in 2019 to resolve other lawsuits related to its conditions. The county has argued that ...

"In terms of the sentence today, I think the judge sentenced him to jail and I think that was appropriate," Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen said. "He'll be allowed to serve that ...

SAN JOSE — A federal judge has advanced a lawsuit that questions suicide-prevention policies in Santa Clara County ... substandard jail conditions and inmate treatment, with the county paying ...