It’s not often our detentions deputies are presented with the opportunity to respond in the community to an emergency. Earlier this year, four Kern County Sheriff’s Office detentions deputies ...

A private prisons contractor is suing California and a Kern County health officer over a state law signed this year that ...

Private prisons contractor GEO Group filed a lawsuit last week against California over a state law enacted this summer allowing local health officials to conduct inspections at federally contracted ...

Democrats are calling for ICE to cut ties with a private, profit-making company that runs two migrant detention centers at the centre of serious abuse allegations. The calls follow Newsweek r eports ...

County facilities reported their highest detainee death count in decades in 2022, including multiple suicides that reveal ...

A woman asked Riverside County jail guards for help before taking her life. A Desert Sun–New York Times investigation.

He was booked into the KCSO Lerdo Detention Facility on several firearm-related charges. Anyone with information regarding this investigation is asked to call the Kern County Sheriff’s Office at ...

A guard escorts an immigrant detainee at the Adelanto Detention Facility in Adelanto on Nov. 15 ... Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local Kern County supervisors unanimously approved ...

A Kern County man was found guilty of 15 fraud-related counts involving two schemes: one for filing false insurance claims, ...