Why was 2023 such a deadly year in Los Angeles County jails? It depends on whom you ask

...number of fatalities has risen so much that the annual death rate has more than doubled...in that time frame.

But a Times review of thousands of pages of autopsies, lawsuits, medical records, and oversight reports found another common thread stretching across all causes of death: neglect, by both guards and medical staff.

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