From the ACLU of Southern California - Overcrowded Men’s Central Jail Plagued by Violence and Hazardous Living Conditions, New ACLU Report Finds
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – A report released today by the American Civil Liberties Union shows that overcrowding and unsanitary conditions that have plagued the jail for more than 30 years still persist, along with an apparent culture of violence and fear, including prisoner-on-prisoner assaults and the use of excessive force by deputies.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – A report released today by the American Civil Liberties Union shows that overcrowding and unsanitary conditions that have plagued the jail for more than 30 years still persist, along with an apparent culture of violence and fear, including prisoner-on-prisoner assaults and the use of excessive force by deputies.
The picture of the jail that emerges in stark and disturbing detail in the report suggests that mentally disabled prisoners suffer some of the worst treatment, and that retaliation and a lack of transparency in conducting investigations into prisoner complaints make it difficult to assess the true extent of violence that occurs there..."
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In the same post, The ACLUSC provides a sequence of links to the document itself , the National Prison Project, and images from the jail ... The images in particular provide a glimpse into a place most of us choose to ignore ....
- Download a pdf of the report. (large file, download speed will vary)
- Download our jails fact sheet.
- View photos taken inside the Men's Central Jail in April, 2010.
- Visit the ACLU/SC Jails Project.
- Visit the ACLU National Prison Project.
