Fourteen 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 ...
Findings and Recommendations
Pretrial decisions shape the trajectory of criminal cases and profoundly affect the lives of the approximately half a million people detained in county jails on any given day, most of whom are legally innocent. Even short periods of pretrial detention can cause long-term harm, including job loss, housing instability, and increased likelihood of con ...
Incarcerated people and their families are exploited in an unjust system.
Mass incarceration has devastated communities around the country, exacerbating poverty, inhibiting economic mobility, and causing local economies to stagnate. Vera’s new Incarceration and Inequality Project (IIP) Data Explorer is an interactive tool that gives advocates and policymakers ready access to data on the connection between incarceration a ...