The 34-year-old son of NBA great Michael Jordan was arrested in central Florida on a misdemeanor drug charge after police ...

Orange County Jail's "New Start" program aids inmates with mental health issues using yoga, arts, and role-playing.

Increased arrests of the homeless are helping drive the trend, and the state’s new law aimed at getting people off the ...

An inmate housed at a Santa Ana intake center was found dead in his cell on Saturday morning, officials confirmed. The ...

But between 2001 and 2024, the county’s population increased by about 560,000 people, while the daily booking average decreased by about 27%, even including the recent rise. The Jail Oversight ...

According to Orange County, in 2024, total jail bookings were 35,313, a 17 percent increase since 2021. But there’s been a sharper spike in the average daily inmate population.

Law enforcement leaders, mental and physical health officials, homeless advocates and legal experts convened Friday for the first in a series of meetings to look into the increase in the inmate ...

An Orange County sheriff’s deputy testified Tuesday that one of his peers at the Orange County Jail used what he called “holy water,” to burn the arm of a mentally ill defendant to get him to pull his ...

The Newport Beach Police Department arrested and booked the man into jail on July 9, 2024, for driving under the influence as well as a probation violation, according to the Orange County Sheriff ...