Wellpath, a for-profit company, is facing over 1,500 lawsuits nationwide for deaths and other tragedies inside jails.

A Pleasanton man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of murder after he walked into the city’s police station and said he ...

A community group presented an idea to some Alameda County supervisors on Thursday to end a contract with a private ...

A 31-year-old Pleasanton man was arrested on suspicion of the stabbing death of his mother, police said Wednesday.

A murder suspect was killed, likely in a homicide, at Santa Rita Jail this week, Alameda County sheriff's officials said.

DUBLIN – An investigation is underway into the death of a 37-year-old inmate at the Santa Rita Jail, according to authorities. Peninsula man loses appeal in East Bay double-murder car crash ...

DUBLIN — A man has been sentenced to six years in prison for killing his cellmate at Santa Rita Jail during a fight that a neighboring inmate later told police was very loud and lasted 30 ...