The Incarceration and Inequality Data Explorer allows users to examine trends in, and relationships between, measures of incarceration and a range of economic metrics—both at the county-level and for the entire country. The technical documentation summary, “similar counties” methodology, data dictionary, and explainer contain descriptions of the va ...
Eleven people have died in county jails so far this year.
How are people dying?It typically takes months for Los Angeles County to publicly issue causes of death for people who have died in LA County jails. And 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. Researchers h ...
Under former Mayor Eric Adams, 48 people died in New York City jails or immediately upon release from Department of Correction (DOC) custody. Any death is a tragedy—but 48, which may in fact be an undercount, represents a complete failure of the city to keep incarcerated people safe.For decades, Rikers Island has been dysfunctional and traumatizing ...