In a better world it would be rather touching, the way that for many years now — for decades — the members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors have acted as if they were protecting ...

The closure of Los Angeles County’s Men’s Central Jail will be a herculean task, requiring numerous steps over time to empty the jail population, including total cooperation from multiple county ...

Nearly every inmate in the jail unit had a cough. Inside their cells, mold coated ceilings, streaked down walls and crept onto mattresses. It was stuffy, humid and the air smelled of smoke. Despite ...

Mold, rats and neglect: a year of inspections at Men’s Central Jail reveals ‘horrific’ conditions 'People have gotten numb to the horrors and I don't know what its going to take to jolt the county out ...