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The Los Angeles County Jail system incarcerates a large number of minority inmates. Victor Rios argues that a new era of mass incarceration has resulted in the development of a youth control complex. This complex resulted from a network of racialized criminalization, and the punishment arrived from institutions of authority that patrolled and ...
It was designed to house 110 criminals per dormitory block and had a maximum capacity of 1,830 inmates. [2] It currently is designed to house approximately 850 inmates including 400 parole violators awaiting Morrissey hearings. It consists of two "hard lock" modules and an inmate processing area.
The construction of the Men's Central Jail was finished in 1963. The original building was designed to house 3,323 inmates. [10] In 1976, an addition was added to the structure at the cost of $35 million, [11] and by December 1990, inmate capacity was 5,276. [12]
Last year, department officials said that out of 45 inmate deaths in the jails, a dozen were drug-related — more than twice as many as a decade earlier when the jail population was much larger.
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The following counties do not have jails: Alpine County: [125] jail services are contracted to El Dorado County and Calaveras County.; Sierra County: [126] this county does not have an official jail tracked by the Board of State and Community Corrections, but the Sheriff's website says that "as of March 17, 2015 the Sierra County Jail began operating as a Temporary Housing Facility".
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On Saturday, February 4, 2006, a prison riot at the facility injured over 100 inmates. Nine inmates were critically injured, and eight had minor injuries. One inmate was pronounced dead at the scene. Numerous ambulances were summoned to the remote facility after fighting began and custody personnel deployed tear gas to quell the disturbance. No ...