The family of a man who died by suicide in 2020 claims he should have gotten closer attention; the county says his risk ...

Santa Clara County supervisors have ordered reforms after inmates were seriously injured at the Santa Clara County Main Jail. Courtesy Bay City News. In light of a series of serious injuries to ...

Santa Clara County jail deaths reached a 20-year high in 2024. Ten people died in the custody of the Sheriff’s Office last ...

Two Santa Clara County sheriff’s deputies were stabbed by an inmate at the Main Jail in an alleged unprovoked attack Sunday, according to sheriff’s officials. Santa Clara County Main Jail.

Former Santa Clara Councilmember Anthony Becker has been sentenced to 40 days in a county work program run through the jail on specific days of the week.

Lawyers for a former Santa Clara official convicted of perjury are requesting he be sentenced to probation without jail time — contrary to prosecutors’ request he serve time.

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 ...

Santa Clara County leaders want to reduce recidivism at Elmwood Correctional Facility in Milpitas and plan to study offering ...

Anthony Becker, a former Santa Clara city official whose political career was backed with millions in San Francisco 49ers donations, was sentenced Friday to 40 days in a county work program in the ...

Santa Clara County Sheriff’s deputies received a “thank you” letter from a county jail inmate after two deputies helped save ...