Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several civil rights groups and law firms sued Riverside County authorities over the use of cash bail, which the plaintiffs claim ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Riverside County sheriff's deputies stand guard at the county courthouse during an election-related demonstration in November 2020 ...

Civil rights groups have sued Riverside County, its court system and its sheriff's department. The suit alleges the use of "cash bail" unconstitutionally keeps people in jail solely because they can't ...

A cadre of civil rights groups brought a lawsuit late Wednesday challenging Riverside County’s use of cash bail to detain people as they await trial, citing squalid conditions inside the county’s ...

Riverside County sheriff's deputies stand guard at the county courthouse during an election-related demonstration in November 2020. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) A cadre of civil rights groups ...