"Multiple letters containing illicit drugs were intercepted by jail staff," according to the sheriff's department.

The Riverside County Sheriff's Office has arrested a woman accused of smuggling drugs into jail using the mail.

It was the second inmate death in less than a week involving apparent mental illness.

After a 182% increase in in-custody deaths over a 10-year period, the number of people who died in the custody of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department dropped nearly 58% from 2021 through 2024, ...

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who's now a leading candidate for governor of California, hid the causes of a mounting epidemic of jail deaths behind a culture of cover-up and retaliation, a ...

The family of a man who authorities say was fatally stabbed in a Riverside County jail by a violent felon who was placed in a low-security vocational program, giving him access to the murder weapon, ...

A 46-year-old man died on Monday while in custody at Riverside County jail, the sheriff's department said. Deputies found Quadir Boykin, 46, of Menifee, unresponsive in a housing unit cell at 12:40 ...