Dying In LA County’s Jails: Now there are 7 deaths in 2026

AS of Thursday, the count of people who have died in 2016 has risen to seven. (You can see the list in graphic at the top of this story.)

As we wrote earlier, from 2016 to 2025, approximately 37.5 percent of the 345 people who have died in the LASD’s jails, died as a result of circumstances that, according to Attorney General Bonta, were preventable.

And, on the topic of those 345 people who have died inside the jails since 2016, approximately sixty percent of those deaths have occurred in the last four years

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