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The inmate reception center for the L.A. County jail system is holding people in "abysmal conditions of confinement" and violating decades of court orders calling for improvements, according to an emergency court filing Thursday by the ACLU and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California.
The civil rights organization cites detainees chained to chairs for days in filthy conditions with no access to toilets, among other abuses.
Advocates hope the three-year pilot program will prevent more women from being incarcerated and re-entering the criminal justice system.
On June 30th, US District Judge Roslyn Silver determined that Arizona’s prison health care is “plainly grossly inadequate” and “unconstitutional.”
When Corey Hebert’s attorney came to see him at the Aroostook County Jail, they sat face to face. Yet the two men knew they had little privacy to speak freely, said Hebert, who was jailed in 2019 for allegedly trafficking drugs.His court-appointed...