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California

 * Alameda County: On March 20, Alameda County officials announced that 247 people would be released from Santa Rita Jail, located in Dublin.
 * Los Angeles County: On March 17, the county Sheriff's Department announced that it had reduced the inmate population by 600 during the previous two weeks in an attempt to keep prisoners from being infected by coronavirus.
 * San Diego County: On March 16, the Sheriff's Department said it had started reducing the number of people being accepted into the county's seven jails and had received approval for early release of some prisoners. Other measures included in-cell meals, a suspension of visitation, and suspension of jail programs.
 * Santa Barbara County: As of April 17, the county jail had released 324 prisoners. The Sheriff announced on a Friday night that one inmate has tested positive for COVID-19.
 * As of July 17, 39 prison inmates have died in California prisons; about half of these were disabled.
 * From March 31 to June 6, there has been 42,107 confirmed cases of COVID-19 along with 510 deaths from state and federal prisons with a case rate of 3,251 per 100,000 prisoners; making it 5.5 times higher than the case rate of US population which is 587 per 100,000.