Woke Los Angeles County supervisors propose motion to DEPOPULATE jails
Democrats Lindsey Horvath and Hilda Solis added a motion to depopulate jails by releasing incarcerated suspects to Tuesday's board meeting.
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Democrats Lindsey Horvath and Hilda Solis added a motion to depopulate jails by releasing incarcerated suspects to Tuesday's board meeting.
The Los Angeles Board of Supervisors added an agenda item that would direct local cops to cite and release anyone with bail set at $50,000 or less in an effort to "decarcerate" jails.
Los Angeles County is considering reducing how many people are going into jails, as well as considering addressing an "overcrowding" problem in them.
The proposal calls on the county to "declare the state of mental health services and overcrowding in the LA County jails a humanitarian crisis."
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors dropped a controversial "decarceration" plan that would free a large number of inmates.