DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PLAN HAMPERED BY JAIL SPACE.Byline: Patrick McGreevy Daily News Staff Writer 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. jails are undermining a crackdown on domestic violence, a 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. city prosecutor said Monday. Assistant City Attorney Maureen Siegel said offenders are being released after serving only a fraction of their sentences because there is no space for them behind bars. In a report to the City Council's Public Safety Committee, Siegel suggested that the city consider creating a new city jail or rent existing county lockup See hang and abend. space to incarcerate in·car·cer·ate tr.v. in·car·cer·at·ed, in·car·cer·at·ing, in·car·cer·ates 1. To put into jail. 2. To shut in; confine. people convicted of domestic violence who otherwise would be freed because of 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. . Siegel told the council panel that in one Van Nuys case, a man was sentenced to 300 days in jail but was released after serving only seven days. Councilwoman Laura Chick, the committee's chairwoman, said the early release of offenders represents a "serious gap" in the effort to reduce domestic violence. "It's hard," said Gail Pincus, who runs the Domestic Abuse Center in Northridge. "I work with both the batterers and the victims and the batterers are reading that as 'see, even the jail doesn't think what I did was bad." Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. spokesman Mark Squiers confirmed that misdemeanor offenders are being released early, with the standard being that they serve 35 percent of their sentence. "They are held as best we can," Squiers said, adding that the capacity of the jails is about 19,000, while holding all misdemeanor offenders for their full sentences would swell the population to more than 40,000. |
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