Riverside County: Jails rebound from shocking lack of resources

When an expert on correctional health care toured Riverside County’s jails in 2015, he found a shocking situation:
For the past two years, one lone physician had been on staff to serve a system that booked almost 60,000 inmates a year and housed an average of 3,700 people per day in five jails spread across a 7,300-square-mile county.
Inmates could still be sent to area hospitals for care, but the system was so overwhelmed that many resorted to asking the judge in their criminal case to or