A West Hills couple has literally translated that elusive feeling of being trapped into your own home by turning their house into a prison. KTLA reports that Lou and Linda DeMarco's home renovations, such as they are, are being billed as a commentary on the current housing crisis. But since the couple is also trying to sell a movie about a couple that turns their home into a prison to make ends meet, it's also part of a PR stunt. more ›

Thursday night, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck is hosting a community forum that will discuss the force's new procedures for interacting with members of the transgender community. more ›

Imprisoned on a parole violation, the exonerated suspect in the Bryan Stow beating case is now free from jail, and happy to be reunited with loved ones. Giovanni Ramirez was released from jail Saturday in San Diego after serving 10 months for violating his parole. more ›

Dominique Marie Rush, 23, has been sentenced to two years and eight months in county jail for her role in the hit-and-run death of a Valley teen who was killed while riding his bicycle in Canoga Park last year, reports City News Service. more ›

Mark Berndt, the ousted Miramonte Elementary School teacher accused of performing lewd acts on 23 children, pleaded not guilty today on all charges. Outside the court today, Berndt's court-appointed attorney, Victor Acevedo, told reporters his client is being harassed in jail, and the Sheriff's Department is to blame. more ›

Forget the file in the cake trick, how about getting drugs into the jail in a tasty rolled-up Mexican food staple: Heroin in a burrito. One Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy, "assigned to provide courthouse security," surrendered Wednesday for having willingly smuggled the drugs into the courthouse jail in a 2010 incident. more ›

Dorothee Burkhart, the 53-year-old German mother of arson spree suspect Harry Burkhart, made another appearance in court today, and also made a spectacle of herself as she spouted off about her son and her treatment by authorities. more ›

"Shut your fucking mouth! We can lose you in here" becomes even more poignant as the constitutionally challenged National Defense Authorization Act for 2012 sits on President Obama's desk. As it currently stands, spokespeople for Obama have stated he would not veto it. more ›

Former Los Angeles Unified School District police officer Jeffrey Stenroos was sentenced today to two years in jail and five years probation for perpetrating a shooting hoax that shut down a Woodland Hills high school and neighborhood during an unnecessary manhunt. more ›

Of the 292 people arrested during last week's raid on the Occupy LA encampment, so far 15 have filed formal complaints against the Los Angeles Police Department regarding how they were treating during their detainment. more ›

Two L.A. County jails could receive a $1.4 billion renovation package should a new proposal come to fruition. The Board of Supervisors will discuss the proposal to renovate the Men's Central Jail and the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic in a meeting later this month. more ›

Inmates in Riverside County could soon find themselves having to pony up cash for their "stay" in jail. Today the Board of Supervisors "tentatively approved an ordinance to require inmates in county detention facilities to reimburse the county for the cost of their incarceration." more ›

It's a hard knock life: Actress Lindsay Lohan checked in to jail last night, and made it out unscathed in under five hours. Lohan, following strict orders from Judge Stephanie Sautner, surrendered into custody at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood at 8:48 p.m. to serve a 30-day sentence. more ›

Actress Lindsay Lohan appeared in Judge Stephanie Sautner's court today for a formal hearing to determine if she has violated the terms of her probation. Lohan opted to waive her right to the hearing, and therefore Sautner is imposing a sentence on the starlet for probation violation that includes 30 days of jail time. more ›

If you're looking to up the ante on the legitimate fear factor of your Halloween, try this on for size -- a jail in Norwalk is going to transport its inmates elsewhere this October 31, and deck the prison out as a haunted house. Deputy Frank Barragan told the Huffington Post that the Norwalk Sheriff's Station and the Lakewood Station will be filled with your typical Halloween characters: ghosts, goblins, witches and vampires. more ›

An attorney visiting his client in jail could be facing time himself after a drug-sniffing dog caught him trying to sneak in 26 balloons full of heroin, meth, pot and syringes to the jail. more ›

Charges against deputies at LA County jails continue to pile up -- the LA Times reports today that an FBI investigation into the county's possibly corrupt system now includes allegations that prison employees beat up a visitor for no reason. Gabriel Carrillo says that when he went to visit his brother in the Men's Central Jail, deputies arrested him after discovering that he had a cell phone. He says that they handcuffed him, took him to a break room and beat him up. more ›

Things are not looking good for the reputation of L.A. County's jails: a new report shows that at least 30 jail employees were disciplined for attacking inmates or covering up attacks in the past two years. The news comes on the heels of an FBI investigation into the prison system, and the revelation from a rookie jailer that he was forced to beat a mentally ill inmate. more ›

An inmate at the jail downtown died suddenly in his cell on Thursday, after a deputy had punched him in the head, according to the Los Angeles Times. Whether or not that blow to the head caused the inmate's death is something that an autopsy will determine, but the incident hasn't done anything to dispel the cloud haning over the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. more ›

A rookie and "honor recruit" from the L.A. County Sheriff's department resigned shortly after he said that he was forced to beat a mentally ill inmate, according to the Los Angeles Times. The 23-year-old rookie Joshua Sather had been working a shift at the jail downtown last year, when he called his uncle a veteran in the department crying. He complained that he had been forced to beat up a mentally disabled inmate. He quit almost immediately after and now works in oil fields in Colorado. more ›

Souhair Khatib has been fighting to sue her Orange County jailers for some time now, and the Supreme Court has just given the Muslim woman's lawsuit the go-ahead. more ›

Before the Governator left office, he signed into law a statewide plan that could permit over 4,000 females inmates to finish their sentences in the comforts of their own homes. Obviously a controversial incentive, the Alternative Custody Program may or may not benefit the children. more ›

If you're sweating to an Ab Circle Pro machine, wipe those brows and confirm whether or not you're using a legit model. Sok Hun Kin, also known as Eric Jin, was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison for trafficking over 2,300 counterfeit, Chinese-made said machines plus DVDs, manuals and stickers for the product into the United States. Jin is a resident of downtown L.A. more ›

Victoria Rathgeb, also and probably better known as Angela Dorian, pleaded no contest today to attempted voluntary manslaughter. The 1968 Playboy Playmate of the Year shot and wounded her husband in their Hollywood apartment complex in October 2010. more ›

Javaris Crittenton - former LA Lakers guard - was arrested at John Wayne Airport on Monday night around 8pm while attempting to board a flight to Atlanta, Georgia. The former NBA player is the prime suspect in the murder of a 22-year-old Atlanta woman. more ›

Sonia Hermosillo, the 31-year-old mother who is accused of throwing her infant son from a parking garage is now on a suicide watch and an immigration hold, reports L.A. Now. The baby, 7-month-old Noe Medina Jr., is hospitalized in critical condition, and there is a fear he may not make it. more ›

A recent inmate who fell ill at the Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles and was taken to County-USC Medical Center, has died. An autopsy is pending, according to the LA Times. more ›

He still hasn't been charged yet for his alleged role in the beating of San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow, but Giovanni Ramirez has been ordered to stay behind bars during a parole hearing today. "A parole official determined that Ramirez should be ordered back to prison for 10 months," explains NBC Los Angeles. more ›

Giovanni Ramirez, the Los Angeles Police Department's "prime suspect" in the brutal beating of Bryan Stow, is headed to court this morning for a parole hearing, and, depending on the results, could be released from police custody soon. more ›

The Lilo saga continues! Lindsay Lohan has refused a plea deal in a case that charges her with stealing a $2,500 dollar necklace from a Venice shop, according to the LA Times. The deal would have included her pleading guilty to grand theft, and up to 90 days in jail. Instead, Lohan will have a preliminary hearing with judge Stephanie Sautner, who will also consider Lohan's violation of probation on a 2007 drunk driving charge. more ›