The steady stream of deaths continues as courts deliberate a federal takeover of NYC jails.

A woman held on Rikers Island was found dead in West Facility jail in the early morning hours of March 20. Her death, the second in New York City jails this week, is being investigated as a possible suicide. She is the fourth person to die during their incarceration or immediately following in New York City’s dangerous jails this year, and at le ...

86 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 ...

The president and House Republicans are entertaining massive cuts to a program proven to reduce crime and make communities across the country healthier and safer.

President Trump has put Medicaid on the chopping block. Despite the White House’s promises that it would not make any cuts to the program, which provides one in five people nationwide with health care coverage, cuts would be all but certain if Trump’s budget agenda were to be implemented. If millions of people lost their access to Medicaid, the co ...