MoBetta U.S. Virgin Islands!

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St. Croix St. John St. Thomas

3 island districts · hover to name one

WE are the VIRGIN ISLANDS!

Every one of these island districts has a jail, an officer who runs it, and a judge.

The jail belongs to the people who pay for it, the officer who runs it answers to the government those people elect, and the judge decides who sits inside. Three offices, enormous power, and almost nobody watching.

How much is your jail — and the officials who run it — costing you?

The JailWho it holds, what it costs, and who dies in it.
The Police CommissionerRuns the jail and the force that fills it.
The JudgeSets bond — which decides who waits in that jail and who goes home.

Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths. The Justice Department is required to count deaths in custody and does not do it properly — a Senate investigation found it failed to identify more than 990 such deaths in a single year. MoBetta is building the county-by-county record instead.

U.S. Virgin Islands — district records in progress. Hover any district above; the pages open next.