The inmate population at the Orange County Jail is surging, officials say, with a new state law aimed at getting the homeless off the streets threatening to push the numbers higher. Faced with the ...
But between 2001 and 2024, the county’s population increased by about 560,000 people, while the daily booking average decreased by about 27%, even including the recent rise. The Jail Oversight ...
homeless advocates and legal experts convened Friday for the first in a series of meetings to look into the increase in the inmate population at the Orange County Jail. The roundtable discussions ...
According to Orange County, in 2024, total jail bookings were 35,313, a 17 percent increase since 2021. But there’s been a sharper spike in the average daily inmate population.