The effects of stress, depression and inadequate health care in the Los Angeles County Jail—a blanket term widely used for the county's eight facilities—build up into lethal risk, a new study led by UCLA researchers has found.

The UCLA professor draws a line from the Hurricane Katrina disaster to the nationwide struggle for healthy housing.

A Georgia judge says he's going to dismiss racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of trying to stop the construction of a police and firefighter training facility known as “Cop City."

WRAL has obtained a letter from the faculty chair to the dean and chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill expressing concern about a lack of tenure for certain professors.

Moving defendants from jails to courts is one of the L.A. County Sheriff's Department's main responsibilities. For more than half a decade, it's struggled to get that done, infuriating lawyers, advoca...

In an era of climate change-driven weather events, extreme heat has become the most lethal form of “natural disaster” in the United States. However, i…

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is considering proposals for expansion of immigration detention nationwide, including in sanctuary states such as California.