Authorities in Ivory Coast say five prison inmates were killed when a routine search turned into a violent clash ...

FOLSOM – An inmate serving a sentence for a 2018 Contra Costa County conviction was fatally stabbed Monday at California State Prison, Sacramento, officials said. Another inmate was detained in ...

(KRON) — An inmate who was convicted of murder in Contra Costa County recently attacked two prison guards, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials said. Ronald D.

Contra Costa ... County Detention Facility (WCDF), and the low-security Marsh Creek Detention Facility in East County. MDF is currently the only one of the three equipped for higher-security ...

MARTINEZ, Calif. - A 30-year-old Contra Costa Jail inmate died Tuesday afternoon at the Martinez jail, about 24 hours after having been in a fight with fellow inmates at the West County ...

Contra Costa County Administrator David Twa likewise ... At the time, however, the facility housed just three dozen realignment inmates, county records show. Among the rest of the jail's ...

have sued the state prison system as well as individual jails over these very issues. The names of the inmates who have committed suicide in Contra Costa County jails since 2014 include: ...

The Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office issued a response claiming to have "no records responsive to (that ... in consensual sexual activity with inmates. He had signed a document acknowledging ...