A study that covers just over 12 years of in-custody deaths at seven detention facilities in San Diego County will be presented at the Citizens’ Law Enforcement Review Board meeting in May.
Following a 2022 state audit of the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office and an independent study conducted by Analytica Consulting on jail deaths and county mortality rates, CLERB contracted with The Mountain-Whisper-Light: Statistics & Data Science in 2023 to complete another independent study on 15 interest areas, including in-custody deaths in San Diego County detention facilities for the last 10 years.
The study, which was completed this month, aimed to identify risk and any relevant factors that might make some incarcerated people more vulnerable to in-custody death than others, officials said…