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02-06-2006, 02:56 AM
Sheriff Blames Lack of Staff for Jail Riot
Prisoner violence has risen amid budget cuts. New fighting erupts as Baca considers expanding inmate segregation by race.
By Stuart Pfeifer and Jessica Garrison, Times Staff Writers
February 6, 2006
As county jail administrators have struggled with a staffing shortage and funding crisis, violence among prisoners has nearly doubled in the past three years at the North County Correctional Facility, the site of a weekend riot that left one inmate dead and dozens injured.
Inmate-on-inmate assaults at the Castaic facility rose from 351 in 2003 to 614 last year. Most of the incidents were racially motivated, including Saturday's riot by more than 2,000 black and Latino inmates, sheriff's officials said.
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http://ktla.trb.com/news/local/la-me-riot6feb06,0,4347058.story?coll=ktla-home-3
Prisoner violence has risen amid budget cuts. New fighting erupts as Baca considers expanding inmate segregation by race.
By Stuart Pfeifer and Jessica Garrison, Times Staff Writers
February 6, 2006
As county jail administrators have struggled with a staffing shortage and funding crisis, violence among prisoners has nearly doubled in the past three years at the North County Correctional Facility, the site of a weekend riot that left one inmate dead and dozens injured.
Inmate-on-inmate assaults at the Castaic facility rose from 351 in 2003 to 614 last year. Most of the incidents were racially motivated, including Saturday's riot by more than 2,000 black and Latino inmates, sheriff's officials said.
Read the whole article here:
http://ktla.trb.com/news/local/la-me-riot6feb06,0,4347058.story?coll=ktla-home-3