A bar chart showing the numbers of in-custody deaths and per-1,000 mortality rate for San Diego County jails between 2009 and 2023. Jail deaths peaked in 2022. The mortality rate has fallen since that year but remains higher than it was before 2020, due in part to smaller jail populations.
Data does not include deaths that occurred during the process of arrest. It also does not include people who were released from custody after being injured or falling ill in jail and subsequently died in a hospital.
Kelly Davis and Sam Schulz / The San Diego Union-Tribune