With each day, the number of people infected with COVID-19 in Los Angeles—home to the nation’s biggest jail—increases. Los Angeles has taken some critical steps to limit arrests and shrink the jail population. However, officials and system actors must do much more and do it quickly to prevent a catastrophe for public health. Below you’ll find a set of tools for tracking how the Los Angeles criminal justice system is responding to the crisis, including current data on arrests by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), COVID-19 in Los Angeles generally, and the number of people held in the jail system. In addition to the resources on this page, Vera has created a guidance brief on bold changes Los Angeles can take to respond to COVID-19 in its criminal justice system.

Resources

Los Angeles

• Connecting incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people to services in Los Angeles: What’s needed during COVID-19? Executive Summary of Survey Results (June 2020)
  (Vera Institute of Justice)
• Connecting incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people to services in Los Angeles: What’s needed during COVID-19? Issue Brief & Survey Results (June 2020)
  (Vera Institute of Justice)
• Guidance Brief: Los Angeles Must Make Bold, Decisive Changes in Its Justice System to Respond to COVID-19
  (Vera Institute of Justice)
• Covid-19 Updates & Resources for Reentry
  (Los Angeles Regional Reentry Partnership)
• As Coronavirus Surges, Crime Declines in Some Cities
  (The Marshall Project)
• California’s Sheriffs Must Do More to Save Their Communities from the Ravages of Coronavirus
  (Justice Collaborative)
• UCLA Law COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project tracks COVID-19 conditions in jails and prisons, as well as the efforts—both in and out of court—to decrease jail and prison populations and improve conditions to ensure the safety of residents and staff.
• Other resources compiled by UCLA Law COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project
• Immigration Detention Trackers by UCLA Law COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project
• Freedom for Immigrants COVID-19 in ICE Custody update
• Freedom for Immigrants Mapping U.S. Immigration Detention COVID-19 Reports
• ACLU Sues California to Block ICE Transfers, Reduce Prison Population Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
  (Los Angeles Times)
• Judge Who Ordered ICE to Immediately Release California Immigrants Overruled; Detainees Will Stay Put
  (Los Angeles Times)
• Interim Guidance on Management of COVID-19 in Correctional and Detention Facilities
  (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

National

• Coronavirus Tracker: How Justice Systems Are Responding in Each State
  Compare your county's COVID-19 population decreases to the changes in other counties.
  (The Marshall Project)
• COVID–19 Incarceration Model
  A data tool to model the spread and impact of COVID-19 among incarcerated people in different jurisdictions
  (Recidiviz)
• Up-to-Date U.S. Prison and Jail Population
  (End Incarceration)
• National Jail Population Database
  (Vera Institute of Justice)
• COVID-19 Policy Shifts
  (Justice Collaborative)
• Recommendations for Youth Justice Systems During the Covid-19 Emergency
  (Youth Correctional Leaders for Justice)
• COVID-19 Law Enforcement Impact Dashboard
  (National Police Foundation)
• COVID-19 Behind Bars
• Resources for Correctional and Detention Facilities
  (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Guidance briefs: Coronavirus Guidance for the Criminal and Immigration Legal Systems
  (Vera Institute of Justice)
• Tracking COVID-19 Rates in Jails and Prisons
  (UCLA)