California’s jail population will rise due to Prop. 36. So will inmate deaths, advocates say

CALMATTERS, Nigel Duara, December 20, 2024 - “Yusef Miller, who leads a group of families whose relatives died in San Diego jails, said more incarcerated people will put pressure on jail systems that are already ill-equipped to handle more inmates.

“We’ve been claiming that Prop. 36 is going to increase the jail population, of course, but they’re increasing it into an already failed and broken system where people’s lives are lost from neglect. If you put more pressure and more activity on this, it’s gonna fail even more,” Miller said.” . . . [SOURCE]