83 people have died in LA County jails since the start of 2023.

How are people dying? Los Angeles County has not yet publicly issued causes of death for everyone who has died in county jails in recent months. And even once even once autopsy reports are finalized, they don’t tell the whole story. When the coroner rules that a death is the result of “natural causes,” jail conditions can still be to blame. Researc ...

Harsh sentencing laws across the country haven’t changed in 30 years, and research shows they don’t work. The law needs to catch up with what we know now.

It’s no secret that people across the country fear crime and that satisfaction with the criminal legal system is low. It’s also clear that our country's punitive approach to justice is not delivering the safety that people desire, and is, in fact, causing harm. Since the 1980s and 1990s, harsh laws imposing excessively long prison sentences—laws t ...

“We are human beings. Even though we are in another country, we are human beings.”

Jonathan fled El Salvador as a teenager and was eligible to remain in the United States under the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act, a 1997 law passed to help tens of thousands of Central Americans who fled political instability and violence in the 1980s. Jonathan had never heard of this law and said he would have certainly been ...