The inmate population at the Orange County Jail is surging, officials say, with a new state law aimed at getting the homeless off the streets threatening to push the numbers higher. Faced with the ...

An expensive spike in the number of inmates at the Orange County Jail is causing county leaders to re-examine cost saving measures. According to Orange County, in 2024, total jail bookings were ...

homeless advocates and legal experts convened Friday for the first in a series of meetings to look into the increase in the inmate population at the Orange County Jail.

An Orange County inmate died during ... s Department said the 72-year-old inmate was booked into the Theo Lacy Facility, a maximum security jail, on Mar. 9, 2019. The inmate’s name is being ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Three inmates escaped from a Southern California maximum-security jail sometime between their 5AM and 8PM headcount on Friday, January 22. Produced by Jacqui Frank ...

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 ...

An inmate housed at ... 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’s Department.