By Abby Sewell
This is a holding cell. I actually can't believe that I found this picture online. This is a perfect example of the over crowding in CJ. You can't see it but there is a toilet somewhere in this picture.
This is a holding cell. I actually can't believe that I found this picture online. This is a perfect example of the over crowding in CJ. You can't see it but there is a toilet somewhere in this picture.
Setting a path (click here) for the future of the Los Angeles County jail system, the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a plan to eventually move 1,000 offenders with mental health issues out of lock-ups as well as to build a new downtown jail.
The moves reflect the growing debate about how the county incarcerates inmates, particularly the mentally ill, who make up 20% of the roughly 17,000 people behind bars. Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey and others have called for a new approach that moves many mentally ill people out of jail and into treatment centers with hopes that they will get help and avoid committing more crimes.
The supervisors voted 3-1 to build a 3,885-bed jail downtown that would replace the decrepit Men's Central Jail, as well as to create a new women's jail in Lancaster. Supervisor Don Knabe voted no and Hilda Solis abstained....
