Quantitative and qualitative investigative journalism on the pandemic's impact on California's state prisons and county jails.
See how the virus affected 35 facilities under the Department of Corrections and local jails in Alameda, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Sacramento, Yolo and Fresno counties.
The Sacramento Sheriff's Office has refused to provide data on the staff vaccination rate and compliance with the state public health department's health orders. Our most recent public records request for this information was denied with Sheriff Scott Jones' office responding that the disclosure of such data to the public would violate their employees' medical privacy rights
Santa Clara and San Francisco counties made COVID-19 vaccines and boosters mandatory for correctional officers — filling a critical gap in the state health department’s vaccination effort.
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