In the summer of 2019, justice reformers celebrated because the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors scrapped a controversial $1.7-billion plan to replace the county’s oldest lockup — the ...

In Houston’s jail, where the population is at its highest in a decade, 24 people have died this year. More than half had a history of mental problems. Dallas Garcia, the mother of an inmate killed in ...

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A report from the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics reveals new information about the more than 663,000 people held in custody in local jails across the country as of the first six ...