LA County Supervisors vote 4-1 to close Men's Central Jail [dailynews.com]

Lara Kain 6/23/217:37 PM

By Elizabeth Marcellino, Los Angeles Daily News, June 22, 2021

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 on Tuesday, June 22, to set up a team to implement the long-promised closure of Men’s Central Jail.

Supervisor Hilda Solis said it was time to stop studying the issue and take action, co-authoring a motion finding that the decrepit downtown lockup must be demolished and that no replacement jail is needed.

“We have long talked about why we need to close this jail. The jail has been tainted by mismanagement, corruption (and) mistreatment of people incarcerated in its cells,” Solis said.

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