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Three-week lockdown draws protests
By Los Angeles Times
Published: 10/05/2007

CALIFORNIA - A three-week lockdown at a high-security Orange County jail -- triggered by racially charged fights between inmates -- is drawing protests from prisoners who say authorities are being heavy-handed by stripping them of basic privileges.

But Orange County Sheriff's Department officials said the get-tough treatment was needed to keep violence from continuing or spreading to other jail facilities. Read more.

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