With 26 people’s deaths in county jails this year so far, the county’s death toll is running alongside the deadliest years on record.

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 ...

The steady stream of deaths continues shortly after the chief district judge for Manhattan federal court said she would appoint an independent “remediation manager” to help oversee NYC jails.

On July 9, Christian Collado, 51, died in New York City Department of Correction (DOC) custody—making him the eighth person to die immediately before, during, or immediately following their incarceration in city jails this year. He was the third person to die in DOC custody in as many weeks; Benjamin Kelly, 37, and James Maldonado, 56, died within ...

The 2025 budget reconciliation bill will destabilize communities and drive crime.

UPDATED: An earlier version of this story was published on June 26, before the bill’s passage. Now that the U.S. House and Senate have passed the budget reconciliation bill, originally titled the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the full extent of its impact on public safety is now apparent. While much of the conversation around the bill focused on iss ...