Los Angeles County’s overall jail population has increased nearly 4% since late last year, in part because of more arrests related to a voter-approved proposition that allowed police to once ...

The county reports the jail is now filling up due to Proposition 36 — which made serial theft and drug crimes into felonies — and that up to 40% of its inmates are so mentally ill they require ...

Advocates called out the Los Angeles County Board of ... to highlight the settlements and the county’s lack of progress on closing Men’s Central Jail, an overcrowded and deteriorated facility ...