JailsinCaliforniaare now the required punishment option for a large number of nonserious, nonviolent, and nonsexual offenders who used to be eligible for prison. Jailsare also the place where probation and state parole violators must serve their revocations.
Almost 61,000 people are incarcerated in countyjails across the state, according to California’s Board of State and Community Corrections. The agency does not track howmany of those people are eligible to vote.
Southern Californiajailsare trying to improve health care. But inmates are dying. Los Angeles County: World’s largest jail system getting a health care overhaul.
The Sacramento County Main JailinCA houses inmates who are awaiting court dates or serving sentences. The jailis staffed 24 hours a day. Call 916-874-6752 for inmate information.
Why So ManyJails? There are a bunch of reasons why LA County has such a beefy jail system. One factor is just the sheer size of the population. More people means more chances of, well, things going sideways. Another reason is that California, in its infinite wisdom, decided toshift the...
How Southern Californiajailsare changing the way they treat the mentally ill. Los Angeles County: World’s largest jail system getting a health care overhaul. Orange County: Jail health care called inadequate, but some changes underway.
As of November, 1,446 people inCaliforniajailswere deemed incompetent to stand trial due to mental illness and waiting to be placed in a state mental hospital, according to state data.
“The state of Californiais well aware that G4S has a long history of abusive practices yet continuesto voluntarily collaborate and turn people over to the private contractor,” Vasudha Talla, the former program director of the ACLU of Northern California, said in a statement.
A new piece of legislation could increase transparency inCalifornia prisons and local jails, making them more accessible for journalists to report on them. If passed, the bill could have a major impact in Riverside County.
The proportion of people inCaliforniajails suffering from mental illness rose 63 percent over the ten-year period between 2009 and 2019, according to a new brief by California Health Policy Strategies.
Though California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation maintains a central repository for COVID-19 data on its prisons, the state Department of Public Health has explicitly stated that it does not have any central source of countyjail data either for infections or vaccinations.
In April, the ACLU of Northern California sued the California Department of State Hospitals (DSH) for refusing to provide public records about the circumstances of the deaths of individuals like Markese Braxton, Rene Snider, and Stanley Wilson, Jr., who were on the DSH wait list.
InCalifornia, lawyers accused staff at the Los Angeles Countyjail of chaining mentally ill detainees to chairs for days at a time. In West Virginia, people held in the Southern Regional Jail sued the state, saying they found urine and semen in their food.
California has some of the strongest laws in the country that protect your right to access sexual and reproductive health care.Abortion is legal inCalifornia and you have the same right to access abortion care regardless of whether you areinjail or not.
