Alameda County will pay $7 million and reform its jail deputies’ training programs after settling a lawsuit with the family of Maurice Monk, who died in Santa Rita Jail in 2021 after allegedly ...

Private healthcare provider Wellpath has paid the children of an Oakland man left for dead at Santa Rita Jail $2.5 million, ...

Alameda County wants fair and responsible justice, whether you’re talking about the jail or whether you’re ... billionaire George Soros and Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple’s Steve ...

If the Board of Supervisors were to appoint a district attorney committed to the “status quo” in Alameda County, he said, it’s possible the prosecution of the Santa Rita Jail staffers would not move ...

The latest delay added to the frustrations of community activists who have been calling for increased oversight of the embattled Alameda County Sheriff’s Office for years. “A lot of these supervisors, ...

Powell is being held at the Alameda County Jail without bail, and 110 years-to-life in prison if convicted of all the charges.