Opinion: Barbaric jail systems in Los Angeles and Riverside Counties need serious scrutiny
In Los Angeles County, the barbaric ways in which inmates in the county jail’s booking center are often held have forced the ACLU this month to file an emergency lawsuit over “abysmal conditions of confinement” that are well-known to Sheriff Alex Villanueva and other law-enforcement leaders who have been “violating decades of court orders.”
Parallel to staff writer Christopher Damien’s reporting, which uncovered the names of the dead, the ACLU has also found out who died there while incarcerated, after filing public records requests. It also lied: “Beyond reporting the deaths late, the sheriff’s department gave inaccurate information to the Department of Justice, saying 12 of the 13 had been sentenced in their cases at the time they died. In fact, none had.”
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