SANTA ANA (CNS) – The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California issued a report Thursday critical of the Orange County Jail system for not doing enough to prevent in-custody deaths.
The report examines 119 in-custody deaths and concludes the conditions of incarceration contribute to “premature and preventable deaths.”
The report’s findings “reveal a system in which internal investigations lack transparency and accountability: not one of the 119 deaths reviewed resulted in the district attorney finding the Sheriff’s Department at fault.”…