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Adelanto CA: Home to two prisons. "In Adelanto, a low ebb for a high desert town"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

In Adelanto, a low ebb for a high desert town Alleged drowning of dozens of kittens by the animal control chief is only the latest in a litany of scandals to plague the town. By David Kelly, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer March 26, 2008 Adelanto may mean "progress" in Spanish, but many say this scruffy high desert community -- founded in 1915 by the inventor of the Hotpoint Electric Iron -- is perpetually stuck in a quagmire of corruption and scandal. Recent accusations of animal cruelty against Kevin Murphy, head of the city's animal control department, have once again fueled notions of a Wild West town operating on the fringes of the law. Murphy, 36, was charged last week with drowning more than 50 kittens in cages over a four-month period last year...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 27, 2008 (boomark / email).