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Sacramento County has been under a legal agreement to improve conditions at its jails since 20. But progress has been slow and a proposal for a possible $1 billion annex has been questioned by lawyers and advocates. Here’s how it got to this point.
The charges come amid an increase in inmate overdose deaths at the jail.
Democrats are divided over legislation to limit solitary confinement in California's prisons, jails and private detention centers.
After months of cold temperatures, Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper decided to provide jail inmates at the Sacramento County Main Jail and the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center with winter-appropriate clothing. The move comes after thousands of inmates in Sacramento County plead for warm clothes to endure low temperatures inside the facilities.
Lorenzo Mays, who is intellectually disabled, spent years lost in a criminal justice system in California that too often fails people with developmental disabilities and mental illness.