L.A. County leaders have been talking about closing the decrepit Men's Central Jail for years. Why has there been so little progress?
About two years ago, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to develop a plan to
The jail, built 59 years ago, is the largest of seven facilities in L.A. County’s sprawling and overcrowded jail system. On any given day, it’s home to more than 4,000 inmates who are held in cramped cells along narrow hallways in downtown L.A. “Work is underway to safely and systematically close MCJ by implementing viable alternatives to incarceration and expanding community-based service. ... Despite the extensive efforts underway, depopulating and closing MCJ is not a short-term undertaking,” said the statement, which was released by a county spokesperson and Supervisor Hilda Solis’ office.
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