Even before she was sworn in as the 31st sheriff of San Diego County, the first woman to hold that job, Kelly A. Martinez knew the work ahead would be arduous. Martinez stepped in three years ago next ...
California counties are housing more than 1,100 inmates on long-term sentences in jails designed for stays of a year or less, according to the first report detailing the growth in that population ...
California's Attorney General is suing the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department over jail conditions. The lawsuit alleges inhumane and unconstitutional conditions, including filth, overcrowding, ...
According to Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes, California doesn’t have a crisis in its jails, where record numbers of people have died even as the state’s jail population shrank. “Saying people died ...
According to Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes, California doesn’t have a crisis in its jails, where record numbers of people have died even as the state’s jail population shrank. “Saying people died ...
(The Center Square) – California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced on Monday that the state is suing Los Angeles County for jail conditions that Bonta said varies from poor health care to rat ...
Every death inside Southern California’s county jails is put under a microscope. Every cause of death is analyzed, every lapse in services or employee misstep is scrutinized. The question then becomes ...
Every five days, on average, someone dies in the jails of Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino or Riverside counties. Broken bodies, broken minds and substance abuse are at the root of most of the ...
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