Plea documents in the case against a former Alabama jailer charged in the death of an inmate says officers intentionally kept ...

that California is about to witness a wave of jail deaths even worse than the last four years. Prop. 36, passed overwhelmingly by voters in November, will likely increase county jail populations ...

Indeed, the largest backers of Prop. 36, which is expected to add a few thousand more people to the state’s prisons and county jails over the next few years, also rely heavily on prison labor.