Editorial: L.A.'s cruel and deadly jail is still full on shutdown date (via latimesopinion )
below its rated capacity of 12,404 for the first time in years. The 8,500 target was within reach.
But money bail for most people accused of crimes returned last year, and the jail population last week wasThe largest segment of those occupants that can be safely reduced is pretrial. The county must work harder to keep people out of jail who are there only because they are.
, where conditions have become so abysmal that state officials are likely to close them and force the county to find alternative accommodations for nearly 400 offenders.and other parts of the adult jail system are under similar scrutiny because of deadly conditions.
Men’s Central Jail will close — either because the county closes it after securing alternative placements for thousands of people who don’t need to be there, or because a court orders it to shut to protect life and safety.
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