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| $300 Million L.A. Jail Fix Gets Go-Ahead |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/27/2006 |
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California supervisors have decided to proceed with Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca's $300 million plan to curb jail violence and reduce overcrowding by increasing the sheriff's budget, reopening three lockups and placing a bond measure on the November ballot. Baca proposed the plan following a series of racial brawls that resulted in two inmate deaths and more than 150 injuries in recent weeks. Supervisors on Tuesday directed staff to proceed with it. Under the plan, $200 million would be spent renovating and reopening the Sybil Brand facility in Monterey Park, which was the county's longtime women's jail until it closed in 1998. Transferring female prisoners there would allow the sheriff to house high-risk male offenders in the higher-security Twin Towers jail downtown. "This is paramount to our entire plan," sheriff's Division Chief Marc Klugman said. The sheriff's department already has begun moving some female inmates from Twin Towers to the newly remodeled Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood, which was closed several years ago because of budget problems, Klugman said. He said the transfer should be completed by this weekend. Most of the roughly 21,000 prisoners incarcerated on any given day in the county - including some violent inmates - are housed in dorms, not cells. Baca also wants more than $100 million a year to staff Sybil Brand and improve security at other jails. Klugman said the department will need to hire 939 more deputies and custody assistants to staff the reopened jails. Supervisors last week delayed voting on a proposal to end a $27 million contract to house about 1,200 state prisoners in county jails after learning that Baca opposes the move. |
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