JAIL INMATES MOVED AFTER SECOND DEATH.Byline: Staff and Wire Services Sheriff's officials worked Monday to transfer hundreds of county jail inmates to the state corrections system after continuing racial brawls led to the second inmate death this month. About 200 inmates, mostly parole violators and those awaiting transfer to state prison, have already been moved out, and 400 more were expected to be transferred this week, a 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. official said. ``We are in the process of getting all the prisoners we can out of here and into the state prison system,'' said Marc Klugman of the department, who heads of the nation's largest jail system. A 38-year-old black inmate collapsed and died Sunday after a fight between four Latinos and two blacks in a six-man cell at the downtown Men's Central Jail. Another black inmate had been killed Feb. 4 in racial fighting at the Pitchess Detention Center's North Facility in Castaic. Racial trouble continued Sunday at the Pitchess Detention Center A detention center or a detention centre is any location used for detention. Specifically, it can mean:
At a news conference Monday, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa (born Antonio (Tony) Ramon Villar, Jr. on January 23, 1953) is the mayor of Los Angeles, California. He is the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since Cristobal Aguilar in 1872. said he worries that racial violence in the jails could spread to the streets of 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. . He said he had called 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. over the weekend and offered to mediate or negotiate a truce inside the jails. ``I am concerned that this can go beyond the borders of the jails,'' Villaraigosa said. ``I think we should all be concerned about that, and clearly there are some important issues that we have to address. I think that part of why these things happen are not just the racial animus Animus - ["Constraint-Based Animation: The Implementation of Temporal Constraints in the Animus System", R. Duisberg, PhD Thesis U Washington 1986]. , but there are larger social ills here.'' The county jail system, which held 18,425 inmates as of Monday morning, remained on lockdown Lockdown A specified period when an employee of a public company is barred from selling - and occasionally buying - their company's stock. Notes: These types of equity transaction restrictions can be imposed by securities regulators or underwriting firms if a company has , with restricted inmate movement inside the jails and a loss of privileges like visiting rights. The Feb. 4 riot that began the current siege of trouble in the jail system involved as many as 2,000 inmates. In addition to the death, dozens were injured. Since then, smaller fights along racial lines have broken out at the Pitchess Detention Center and other jail facilities. |
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