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Los Angeles: Overcrowded Men's Central Jail Plagued by Violence and Hazardous Living Conditions, New ACLU Report Finds

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Overcrowded Men's Central Jail Plagued by Violence and Hazardous Living Conditions, New ACLU Report Finds "...the only solutions are to either reduce the jail population dramatically or close it." from the report: "...the ACLU urgently renews its call for the Sheriff's Department to radically reduce the population of its jail system through proven, low-risk alternatives to incarceration for pre-trial detainees, including electronic monitoring, supported housing and drug and mental-health treatment programs. By cutting down the overall number of prisoners in the nation's largest correctional system, the sheriff can ease overcrowding at Men's Central Jail or close this aging, costly, toxic facility once and for all. " Wednesday, May 5, 2010 LOS ANGELES, Calif...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 05, 2010 (boomark / email).