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A young prosecutor who has tried only a handful of cases in a six-year career. A veteran defense attorney who once described herself as a check against a racist criminal justice system. In assembling the executive team that will serve as his closest advisors in the nation’s largest prosecutor’s office, Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón brought together a group of people whose voices would have almost certainly been ignored under previous administrations. Advertisement The decision to place public defenders in leadership roles is emblematic of Gascón’s promise to radically c...

NY Times data: Fresno County jail has had most COVID cases of any jail or prison in U.S. KFSN Share: FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Fresno County jail has had more COVID infections than any other correctional facility in the entire country, according to data collected by the New York Times. The Harris County jail in Houston, TX, ranks second but has more than three times as many inmates. The next five on the list of correctional facilities with the largest number of inmates who have been infected with COVID are all California state prisons, including Avenal State Prison and the Substance Abuse ...

NY Times data: Fresno County jail has had most COVID cases of any jail or prison in U.S. KFSN FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Fresno County jail has had more COVID infections than any other correctional facility in the entire country, according to data collected by the New York Times. The Harris County jail in Houston, TX, ranks second but has more than three times as many inmates. The next five on the list of correctional facilities with the largest number of inmates who have been infected with COVID are all California state prisons, including Avenal State Prison and the Substance Abuse Treatme...

Listen to the report here So many people have tested positive for COVID-19 at the Fresno County Jail that the total number of cases now exceeds the entire incarcerated population.   However, sheriff’s office spokesperson Tony Botti says the high caseload in the jail is merely reflective of what’s happening in Fresno County as a whole. Indeed, the jail’s overall positivity rate, just over 11 percent, is on a par with the county’s.   “We have so many people come into the jail and go out of the jail,” Botti says. “So, much like it spreads in the community and how we just had a sp...