Wells Fargo Bank and US Bank have chosen to celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month by trying to evict breast cancer survivors from their homes.

LOS ANGELES — Arrestees who say they were denied bail because immigration agents wanted them held sued the Los Angeles County sheriff Friday cla...

The announcement this week by Sheriff Lee Baca that he agrees with and intends to implement all of the recommendations laid out in a new report by the Citizen's Commission on Jail Violence is welcome news.

LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca on Wednesday vowed to reform the nation's largest jail system in the wake of allegations of deputy ...

LOS ANGELES -- A commission appointed to investigate Los Angeles County jails said Friday the system has shown a "persistent pattern of unnecessary an...

LOS ANGELES -- Jail commanders condoning the beating of inmates. Evidence withheld from inmates accused of attacking guards. A photo of a woman wearin...

LOS ANGELES -- Sheriff Lee Baca is recalling about 200 official-looking badges that were given to politicians for use during disasters. The move in L...

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Sheriff Lee Baca, and City Attorney Carmen Trutanich are coming forward in support of driver's licenses for undocumented i...

It is an involuntary code of silence that threatens to hamper the investigation into the Miramonte scandal, based on the fear that the parents have expressed in going to the police because they fear immigration consequences.

Without an external and independent body overseeing the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, how can people be sure that it handles deputy misconduct properly? They can't.

LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said he is to blame for deputy misconduct and brutality against inmates in the nation's largest jai...

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County official is calling for sweeping new measures in the jail system and wants sheriff's deputies to wear portabl...

LOS ANGELES -- He's been dubbed L.A.'s new-age lawman. He talks about damaged psyches and second chances, and he shies away from the tough-on-crime cl...

On Sunday, Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca sent out a statement directly addressing the Los Angeles Sheriff's Departments battered reputation and the ste...

A sharp divide in the recent Supreme Court ruling ordering California to drastically reduce its prison population represents a deeper national division.

It has the hallmarks of a police brutality claim: Allegations of violence and excessive force, blamed on poor training and discipline. But this law...

In a press conference this morning, LA County Sheriff Lee Baca urged the public to play its part in keeping Los Angeles safe. He called attention to t...

Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca shot back at a congressman who warned him during a congressional hearing Thursday that a Muslim group the sheriff ...

All through the George W. Bush administration, Americans were fed a steady diet of fear, strategically orchestrated by Bush and Cheney to promote thei...

The L.A. Sheriff's Department wants to extend a joint project with federal immigration officials to identify illegal immigrants in the L.A. jail syst...

Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca went on uniformed patrol in East Los Angeles Friday as part of an effort to save the department millions of dollar...