BOARD VOTES TO END $27 MILLION JAIL CONTRACT WITH STATE SUPERVISORS HOPE DECISION WILL RELIEVE OVERCROWDING, TENSIONS.Byline: Troy Anderson Staff Writer Hoping to relieve the tensions that sparked two weeks of deadly riots in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County jails, the Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to terminate a $27 million contract to house about 1,200 parolees from the state prison system. Under the contract, state prisoners who violate their paroles on ``technical issues'' such as weapons possession or associating with felons or gang members are allowed to serve their 60-day to 90-day sentences in county jails. ``We cannot be the pressure valve that is allowing the state to be calm and cool when we're having a major critical crisis,'' Supervisor Gloria Molina Gloria Molina is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, and the current chairwoman of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.[1] Molina grew up as one of ten children in the Los Angeles suburb of Pico Rivera, California, U.S. said. ``This should eliminate some of the overtime expenses. But we'll have to negotiate with the state to see if they will take them off our hands.'' Meanwhile, the Sheriff's Department has identified about 50 people involved in the rioting and has submitted requests to the District Attorney's Office to charge them with crimes, including murder. In the past 10 to 15 years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time nation's largest jail system has become a ``subset of the state prison system,'' in which 91 percent of the inmates are felons and serious offenders, Sheriff Lee Baca Leroy David Baca (b. May 27 1942, East Los Angeles, California) is the Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California. After graduating from Benjamin Franklin High School (Los Angeles) in 1960, Baca worked his way through East Los Angeles College before starting with the L.A. told the board. But in the past few years, the department has lost 1,100 deputies to attrition, leaving the jails understaffed and more prone to violence. California Department of Corrections officials could not be reached for comment late Tuesday. Marc Klugman, chief of the Sheriff's Department's Correctional Services Division, said state prisons are also overcrowded o·ver·crowd v. o·ver·crowd·ed, o·ver·crowd·ing, o·ver·crowds v.tr. To cause to be excessively crowded: a system of consolidation that only overcrowded the classrooms. and don't have room to house parole violators. ``This is a problem in every county jail across the state,'' Klugman said. ``Your motion is going to ring some loud bells and the state is going to need to respond.'' The supervisors said they hoped the decision would relieve overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. in the jails and help Baca quell quell tr.v. quelled, quell·ing, quells 1. To put down forcibly; suppress: Police quelled the riot. 2. rioting that has left two inmates dead and more than 100 injured. The decision follows recent moves by the county to return 1,500 prisoners to state prisons. Baca, in his first appearance before the board since the rioting began Feb. 4, also said he hoped that terminating the state contract, combined with other steps the department is taking, would help prevent further rioting. Late next month, Baca plans to move the most ``predatory inmates,'' those responsible for much of the violence, into single cells at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility The Twin Towers Correctional Facility, also referred to in the media as Twin Towers Jail, is a complex erected in Los Angeles, California to house inmates of the Los Angeles County Courts. It is the world’s largest jail. and relocate the women now housed there to Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood. The department also plans to place radio frequency devices on inmates to track their movements and is developing an automated jail classification system so the most violent inmates are not housed with nonviolent offenders. Troy Anderson, (213) 974-8985 troy.anderson(at)dailynews.com |
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