California is suing La County over ‘inhumane’ prison conditions

From Kayla MihalovichCalmness

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Referring to “inhumane conditions” and “shocking speed of death,” General Prosecutor Rob Bont Bont announced on Monday that the state was suing Los Angeles County for the conditions in its prison.

“We can’t wait any more,” said Bont at a press conference. “We need a complete reform and we need it now.”

The lawsuit filed on Monday seeks to force the Sheriff Department of Los Angeles County and the correctional health services to implement widespread changes, including its health care, restriction and complaints.

“Our lawsuit will be the impulse of driving to turn these changes to reality,” Bont said. “Every person in custody deserves safety, healthcare, dignity.”

Around An average of 14,000 people are housed in LA prison daily. The law process of the state is said to have been exposed to rats infections, spoiled dishes and without clean water.

In the last decade, nearly 40% of the death toll in Los Angeles County has been caused by preventable circumstances, the court said. According to the court case, three dozen custody has already taken place in the prisons of Los Angeles this year.

Despite decades of court monitoring for prisons in Los Angeles County, dangerous conditions and constitutional violations continue to continue, the lawsuit said. Meanwhile, the county has spent millions of dollars to protect and settle lawsuits about these violations.

“Instead of dealing with the root causes or allocating resources to resolve recognized violations, the defendants participated in a long -standing model of resistance to supervision and accountability,” the state prosecutor’s complaint said.

The Los Angeles system is the largest state, which works with eight prisons throughout the county. The county is one of several that faces poor conditions and preventable deaths. The state last year appointed an employee accused of investigating the death of prison and the Cabinet of Bont previously opened an investigation into civil rights focused on Prison in Riverside CountyS

And last year CalMatters reported that The mortals in local prisons are increasing Even when their population decreases due to changes in state sentence laws.

The Los Angeles Sheriff Department did not immediately answer a request for a comment. This story will be updated when the department responds.

Kayla Mihalovic is California local news.

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