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 next month.<\/p>\n
Following a 2022 state audit of the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office and an independent study conducted by Analytica Consulting of 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
CLERB investigates citizen complaints against the sheriff’s office and the San Diego County probation department, as well as deaths and serious bodily injuries connected to the actions of either department.<\/p>\n
The findings and recommendations in the report are the product of TMWL, not the sheriff’s office or CLERB.<\/p>\n
Responding to the report, the Sheriff’s Office says “We recognize that any preventable in-custody death is unacceptable. Our all-out efforts at enhancing medical and mental treatment for those in our custody continues to show dramatic reductions in negative outcomes.”<\/p>\n
A news release went on to say “These improvements reflect enhanced drug detection strategies, including expanded K-9 operations, increased screening protocols that also includes employees, and the placement of Naloxone throughout housing units, along with other interdiction measures.”<\/p>\n
San Diego County has been under intense scrutiny for years over its unusually high number of in-custody deaths. In 2022, the California State Auditor found “deficiencies with how the sheriff’s department provides care for and protects incarcerated individuals (that) likely contributed to in- custody deaths.”<\/p>\n
That audit examined 185 deaths within the San Diego County jail system from 2006 through 2020, a rate that exceeded all of California’s other large counties during that time period. The county had 19 custody deaths in 2022 alone, and another six in 2023.<\/p>\n
The Sheriff’s Office has committed to a $500 million effort to modernize and upgrade its jails, but advocates have questioned whether those efforts are sufficient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A study that covers just over 12 years of in-custody deaths at seven detention facilities in San Diego…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[4589,53969,66938,23,100,74,84,76,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-283368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-deaths","9":"tag-detention-facility","10":"tag-kogo-news","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-san-diego-county","15":"tag-san-diego-headlines","16":"tag-san-diego-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}