Update: The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department agreed Thursday to provide quarterly online reports about conditions inside the county jails and its efforts to improve them, in response to a request from the Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission.
The jails are desperately overcrowded — nearly 15,000 incarcerated people reside in a system approved by the state for about 12,500. Over 40% of those people have mental health needs.asking a federal judge to order immediate improvements in the “abysmal” conditions at the Inmate Reception Center . The group cited a litany of abuses, including the shackling of detainees with serious mental illness to chairs “for days at a time.
A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order soon after requiring the Sheriff’s Department to improve conditions, but problems persist.Inspector General Max Huntsman told the oversight panel on Thursday that inspections have found that incarcerated people are still being tied to objects like gurneys during the intake process at the IRC.
“As long as we have our jails overcrowded, we will see IRC continue to be shut down repeatedly, we will continue to see people's constitutional rights violated, either in the IRC or elsewhere, simply because we lack the capacity to care for the number of people we have in our jails now,” he said. Responding to the issues raised by Huntsman and the ACLU, Sheriff Robert Luna told the commission, “that is not acceptable,” adding that his department needs to take “immediate corrective action.”
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