The County of Sacramento is barreling toward spending $1 billion — no, that’s not a typo — to add a new mental health annex to the County Jail.
The county is under pressure to make changes to its jail system under the Mays Consent Decree of 2020, the result of a federal class action lawsuit brought by inmates against the county in 2019 ...
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office signed a federal consent decree the year after West was killed, agreeing to expand mental health services at the county’s only adult jail. The agreement was ...