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The Alameda County District Attorney's office was ordered by a federal judge to review more than 30 death penalty cases after Black and Jewish jurors were purposefully excluded in the conviction of a man in 1993.

The inmate population is down, but the death rate in Los Angeles County jails is the highest it's been in at least 15 years. Why?

An ailing inmate worker in the kitchen at Men’s Central Jail unwittingly exposed thousands of detainees to hepatitis A before medical staff discovered what was wrong with him, triggering a vaccination campaign last year.

As Jay D. Aronson and Dr. Roger A. Mitchell explore in their recent book 'Death in Custody,' that lack of data is a national problem.

As Jay D. Aronson and Dr. Roger A. Mitchell explore in their recent book 'Death in Custody,' that lack of data is a national problem.

A man who died in a bedbug-infested cell in a Georgia jail’s psychiatric wing “died due to severe neglect,” according to an independent autopsy released Mo

The Fulton County Medical Examiner previously listed Thompson's cause of death as "undetermined."

Jail death was homicide via "severe neglect," says an independent autopsy. Lashawn Thompson was found dead in a bedbug-infested Fulton County jail cell last September.

The audit comes after former Chief Medical Examiner Dr. David Fowler testified that George Floyd's death wasn't a homicide.

Former NFL star and activist Colin Kaepernick recently announced a new initiative to aide the families whose loved ones suffered police-related death. The Autopsy Initiative was created to give free, second autopsies to victims of police violence. The autopsies will be conducted by a group of five Board-Certified pathologists.