State of The Courts

Los Angeles County

Approximately 44% of the people held in LA County jails are pretrial, meaning they are legally innocent and have not been convicted of the purported crime. That amounts to 7,500 people denied the presumption of innocence every day in Los Angeles.

Jefferson County, ALabama

In Jefferson County, Alabama the sheriff’s office oversees the incarceration of individuals awaiting trail or transfer to the Alabama Department of Corrections. The county maintains an average intimate population of approximately 1,000 individuals across two facilities located in downtown Birmingham and Bessemer. Annually, these facilities process around 43,000 inmates. To manage inmate information and address overcrowding, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office has implemented the community assisted Monitoring program. This initiative aims to supervise non-violent offenders outside traditional jail settings, prompting rehabilitation and reducing recidivism.