Expansion of opioid addiction treatment in the jail is reducing deaths and hospitalizations, county says

From 2020 through 2022, 28 people died in the Pima County jail . That was a per capita death rate higher than some of the most notoriously deadly jails in the country. Another seven died in 2023.

And then, starting in the fall of 2023, there was a sharp turnaround. In the last 13 months, there has been a single death in the jail..