Overcrowded and inhumane: How a 1975 lawsuit on horrific jail conditions in L.A. remains unwon

The ACLU SoCal has spent almost half its existence fighting inhumane jail conditions and continues to monitor the jails.

By David Colker

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New Model Shows Reducing Jail Population will Lower COVID-19 Death Toll for All of Us

The Trump administration optimistically projects that “substantially under” 100,000 people will die from COVID-19 in the United States. Horrific as that statistic is, a new model suggests it could be a huge underestimate. The government models fail to consider the impact of the virus on the incarcer

Inmate housing area in a California prison.

On the 47th Anniversary of Roe, Let's Advance Reproductive Justice for People Behind Bars

California consistently fails to provide adequate reproductive health care for one of our most vulnerable populations: incarcerated people in jails. Communities of color, lower-income communities, and LGBTQ communities bear the brunt of this inadequate care, since they are the targets of mass incarc

By Aditi Fruitwala, Minouche Kandel

A woman at a protest holding a sign that reads 'I heart repro rights'

OC Voters Have the Power to Demand Justice for Deaths in County Jails

Danny Pham, a 27-year-old Westminster native, was serving a six-month sentence in an Orange County jail for a non-violent offense. He was close to completing his sentence. Instead, he ended up dead.

By Esther Lim, Daisy Ramirez

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