Posted on 12/17/2006 8:43:22 AM PST by shrinkermd
Violence has left 14 dead and hundreds hurt since 2000 in L.A. County lockups. Critics fault the sheriff's efforts
On a Tuesday in October 2003, Ki Hong entered Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles to serve a five-day sentence for soliciting a prostitute.
He didn't survive two hours.
Three members of a Korean gang instantly spotted Hong, 34, who authorities allege was a member of a rival gang. The trio had broad freedom to roam the jail because sheriff's deputies had given them jobs as inmate workers — jobs for which they, awaiting trial on murder charges, should have been ineligible.
They let themselves into Hong's dormitory using a guard's control button. Then they stabbed Hong repeatedly, strangled him with bed linen and hid his body in a trash bin.
Since 2000, 14 inmates have been slain in jails run by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, including four this year. Hundreds more have been injured in jail violence.
Taxpayers, who pay more than $500 million a year to operate the jails, paid an additional $6 million since 2004 to compensate inmates and their survivors for errors, negligence and brutality. In addition, a tentative $2.8-million settlement is awaiting county approval.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
• The Sheriff's Department has failed to protect vulnerable inmates from predators, despite repeated calls for action by jail experts. Last year, deputies placed Chadwick Cochran, a low-level offender with a long history of mental illness, in an unsupervised holding cell with violent gang members. They punched and stomped him to death.
• The department has had increasing difficulty maintaining order at its eight jail facilities. More than 30 major disturbances involving large numbers of inmates erupted this year. Riots left two dead and at least 100 injured. After widespread rioting in 2000, the violence subsided briefly. But the number of disturbances has risen from 47 in 2001 to 112 this year, records show.
• Disciplinary action against sheriff's employees whose lapses contributed to inmate deaths or injuries is often softened or rescinded on appeal. In one case in 2003, a deputy was suspended five days for failing to notice that two inmates, drunk on jail-brewed alcohol, had beaten their mentally ill cellmate to death. A supervisor overturned the suspension over the objections of the department's internal affairs monitor.
When will the UN become involved?
"Since 2000, 14 inmates have been slain in jails run by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, including four this year. Hundreds more have been injured in jail violence."
Another argument in favor of the death penalty.
These jails are mostly filled with illegal aliens. They flock to us here in L.A. because of Special Order 40 that prohibits police from trying to figure out if someone is here illegally.
Imagine that. Law breakers don't just break one law entering the country improperly. They live a whole life style that continually disregards all laws.
The UN is too busy promoting mayhem and corruption on a global basis.
We're on our own with this one.
The solution is more executions of violent criminals, fair trials and fast hangings.
Police are supposed to protect the peace not infringe on the personal rights of criminals.
After all, criminals are people too.
/sarc
We need to make their stay as pleasant as possible and if not, we need to compensate their families for our treacherous misdeeds as a society.
again..../sarc
Maybe we should send the terrorists to the L A prisons. The other prisoners would take care of them for us
Yup!
Back in more civilized times, before the 1980s, the jails were allowed to segregate the prisoners to prevent this sort of thing but then the activists and race pimps went on the warpath and now they must integrate the population and allow them socialization time, recreation time, physical fitness centers, etc - you know, the usual liberal formula for disaster.
Now, as they reap their ill-planted fields we see the chaff and the wheat is lost.
Keep suspending the death penatly Cali- when stuff like this starts getting out of hand- go cry on someone's shoulder who gives a rip! http://sacredscoop.com
"If the deputies can't the prisoners and their rights we should arm the inmates with guns from the L.A. gun buyback programs. I think we would see a significant savings in taxpayer money by initiating this program."
How about the socialists in Kali just drop their draconian gun laws and allow the honest people to defend themselves?
Quagmire? Time to bring our cops out!
The penalty for soliciting a hooker is not death. If the government incarcerates a person the government is responsible for their safety during the term of the person's sentence.
Without using undo force against other inmates to ensure it of course...
''Undo'' or unnecessary force is self-defining, it's never appropriate. The recurring question is: What constitutes unnecessary force? That's always a factual question bearing a direct relationship to the specific situation in which the application of force is required. It is another normatively ambiguous concept that the law deals with every day. Only facts juxtaposed to the forced applied can, in retrospect, determine if the forced used in any case was unnessary or excessive. That's why prepatory training is critical. Those having the duty to apply force must be trained to know the appropriate amount to use. But that question is not involved in the LAX jail deaths and injuries to inmates.
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Los Anggeles Civil Rights Attorney STEPHAN YAGMAN:
1) Was the 1st Attorney to push to get GITMO terrorist prisoners released in time of war.
2) Has filed suits against lifesaving North Hollywood Bank Shootout LAPD Officers & LAFD Firemen on behalf of the Shooters.
3) Has publically admitted to owning a Farm in Communist Cuba, where his friend FIDEL CASTRO otherwise doesn't allow private ownership of Farms.
4) Has twice been suspended from practicing Law (in New York State & California) over his getting caught stealing from his own clients.
5) Has publically vowed to destroy the LAPD as he continues to constantly file Civil Suits against LAPD Officers & Officials.
The Enemy is now Within...
...and always has been.
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