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LAPD jail: LAPD finally opens its new downtown jail - latimes.com

Prisoners were transferred Wednesday from the LAPD's old Parker Center jail to the new $84-million Metropolitan Detention Center. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times / February 2, 2011)

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By Joel Rubin, Los Angeles TimesFebruary 3, 2011E-mailPrint Text Size

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ever wonder how many people are in jail? b j s knows

Jail Inmates at Midyear 2009 - Statistical Tables

Minton D. Todd

June 3, 2010    NCJ 230122

Presents data on numbers of jails and jail inmates at midyear 2009 and analyzes patterns of growth from 2000 through 2009. These statistical tables include data on rated capacity of jails, percent of capacity occupied, and capacity added. They provide estimates of admissions to jails and detail the volume of movement among the jail population. This web document also includes total numbers for jail inmates by sex, race, and Hispanic origin. Standard errors for jail estimates are included.

Part of the Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear Series

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ACLU of Southern California looks @ LA's Men's Central Jail

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.

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.