A Portland-area car mechanic has filed a $371,500 lawsuit against a tow-truck driver whom he says severely beat him because the driver erroneously believed he was a “homeless person” who was ...

Using a decoy officer, police interacted with a man online who attempted to meet in person with someone he believed to be a ...

"It was a mindfulness tool for me." The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office says one of its detectives got a tip from the Vancouver Police Department in November about someone in Happy Valley having ...

Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan has been given a 14-year jail sentence in a land corruption case, officials and his lawyer have said. The verdict in the case followed allegations of ...

At the time, county officials expected to take in 75 federal inmates a day, for a total of around $220,000 per month in revenue, with additional federal dollars expected from the sheriff's office ...

Investigators blame, in part, a chronic staff shortage going back at least five years that has impeded routine security checks at the Richland County jail and forced staff to monitor several units ...

Kim Kardashian posted a plea to Gov. Gavin Newsom on Instagram last week saying wages for inmates fighting the Los Angeles County wildfires should be raised. Right now, they’re paid between $5. ...

Reed said the county's jail only holds between 10 to 15 inmates, with a maximum capacity of around 65 inmates. The means staff are constantly rotating inmates to use the whole building.

Fire crews are getting a unique hand in trying to slow the blazes tearing through Los Angeles - the California prison system Nearly 400 inmates are among the 14,000 emergency responders working on ...