Crstnamre
02-08-2006, 05:30 PM
February 8, 2006
EDITORIAL
Safer streets -- and jails
WITH EACH NEW DEATH in Los Angeles County's jails, the pattern becomes more clear. Last weekend, the victim was a convicted sex offender — for unknown reasons housed with gang members — who was killed during a race-related riot by prisoners. Before that it was a mentally ill man who had been left in an unsupervised room with violent offenders. In perhaps the most chilling case, an inmate roamed undetected for hours through the Men's Central Jail in 2004 until he found the man who had testified against him in a murder case and strangled him.
Read the whole editorial here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-jails08feb08,0,5082232.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials
EDITORIAL
Safer streets -- and jails
WITH EACH NEW DEATH in Los Angeles County's jails, the pattern becomes more clear. Last weekend, the victim was a convicted sex offender — for unknown reasons housed with gang members — who was killed during a race-related riot by prisoners. Before that it was a mentally ill man who had been left in an unsupervised room with violent offenders. In perhaps the most chilling case, an inmate roamed undetected for hours through the Men's Central Jail in 2004 until he found the man who had testified against him in a murder case and strangled him.
Read the whole editorial here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-jails08feb08,0,5082232.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials