p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> With 16 in-custody deaths so far this year and 46 last year, oversight agencies and candidates vying for the county sheriff position are pushing for changes at the county lockups. Luna points to reforms he’s made inside the jails as proof that conditions are improving. More than 1,200 body cameras are being used, use-of-force incidents are down, and he created a unit within custody operations to review such incidents faster, he said. A new mental health assessment area has been added to the inmate reception center downtown, and Luna said he’s proposing the county build a correctional health center modeled after the state hospital system to secure inmates but also provide better medical services. “It’s an ongoing effort,” Luna said about reducing in-custody deaths. “I’m not going to stop. I would love to get to zero.” Villanueva, who made a show of kicking federal agents out of county jails in his first term, said the department would continue to abide by Senate Bill 54, the state law that restricts local law enforcement from …