MARTINEZ, Calif. - More than 31 percent of people booked into Contra Costa ... of various county cities and numbers regarding people cited and released without being booked into jail.

MARTINEZ (BCN) – The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors unanimously decided Tuesday to demolish the old county jail – which has been on the site since 1903 – along with the 12-story ...

MARTINEZ — A new federal lawsuit filed against Contra Costa County alleges that three sheriff’s deputies working inside the county jail beat an inmate so badly they broke the man’s nose and ...

A Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputy has resigned after his ex-girlfriend reported to Internal Affairs that he had been texting unprofessional photos from inside the Martinez jail while on ...

RICHMOND — A county ... Samuel Martinez, 61, died Thursday evening, hours after he’d been cleared to return to the West Contra Costa Detention Facility. Martinez had been at the jail since ...

MARTINEZ — A 61-year-old man in custody as an inmate at the county jail in Martinez was found dead during a bed check on Saturday, the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office said. A deputy found ...

MARTINEZ (BCN) An investigation is underway tonight into the death of a 61-year-old inmate today at the Contra Costa County Jail in Martinez, a Sheriff's Office spokesman said tonight in a news ...

Contra Costa County is ending its contract to detain immigrants at a jail in Richmond, becoming the third California jurisdiction since last year to cut such ties with the federal government ...