INMATES MARCH TO NEW JAIL : 192 TO TEST SECURITY AT 4,100-BED TOWERS.Byline: Eric Wahlgren Daily News Staff Writer The first batch of prisoners marched across a covered bridge into 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. on Saturday, marking the jail's unofficial grand opening 1-1/2 years after it was built. Starting at about 12:30 p.m., 32 inmates began the walk from the Men's Central Jail to eight-story Tower One. They were among 192 inmates destined des·tine tr.v. des·tined, des·tin·ing, des·tines 1. To determine beforehand; preordain: a foolish scheme destined to fail; a film destined to become a classic. 2. for the new facility during a four-month test period. ``It was smooth,'' said Sgt. Ron Spear of the 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. . ``There were no incidents.'' He expected the 160 other prisoners to be in the new facility by the end of the day. Completed in the fall of 1995 for more than $300 million, the new jail remained vacant until Saturday because the county lacked cash to operate it. But the county Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. last October approved a complicated, $74 million plan that included opening the new jail, located in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or near Union Station, and leasing nearly 2,000 inmate beds in other county facilities to state and federal agencies. The 192 inmates will be used to test the new jail before it is filled to its capacity of 4,100 inmates sometime this summer. ``They will be moved from pod to pod to make sure everything is working properly,'' Spear said. Spear said that some of the 192 prisoners were moved to the Men's Central Jail from other correctional facilities before the transfer to the new jail next door. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: The first inmates to occupy the county's new Twin Towers jail march toward it in handcuffs hand·cuff n. A restraining device consisting of a pair of strong, connected hoops that can be tightened and locked about the wrists and used on one or both arms of a prisoner in custody; a manacle. Often used in the plural. tr.v. Saturday. Associated Press |
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