Los Angeles County to Keep Nonviolent Offenders Out of Jail

An inmate at the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department Twin Towers Correctional Facility.Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/
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Los Angeles County is delaying filing new charges against nonviolent offenders and evaluating cases that haven’t gone to trial to reduce the number of inmates in local jails as well as to limit court proceedings.