L.A. County Jail

5 More Years in Prison for a Making a Phone Call

It's hard to open a newspaper these days without finding an article about California's myriad criminal justice troubles. From the Plata decision ordering the state to reduce the population of its prisons, to the hunger strike by prisoners protestin...

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Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights

Today, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. With over 2.3 million men and women living behind bars, our imprisonment rate is the highest it’s ever been in U.S. history. And yet, our criminal justice system ...

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L.A. Times Columnist to L.A. Sheriff: Right Your Ship

Following the release of an ACLU report on Los Angeles County Jails, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times echoed this editorial in calling for L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca to do something about the deplorable conditions in his jails. The ACLU repo...

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ACLU Lens: Rachel Maddow Highlights ACLU Report on Abuse in Los Angeles Jails

In an opening segment last night devoted to calling out politicians for attempting to score political points by being “tough on crime,” Rachel Maddow highlighted an ACLU report released yesterday documenting dozens of stories of brutal ...

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ACLU Lens: Abuse in the Los Angeles County Jails

Read the report >> Juan Pablo Reyes was punched by Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies over and over again in the ribs, mouth and eyes, breaking his eye socket and leav...

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