Dozens of inmates at the North County Correctional Facility were subjected to the “potty watch” process, according to the Los Angeles Times.

L.A. county jail will no longer shackle inmates to walls for ‘potty watch’

A Los Angeles county jail has ended the practice of shackling inmates to walls while waiting for them to expel contraband — a practice known as “potty watch” — after 24 cases of alleged abuse were referred to prosecutors.

Dozens of inmates at the North County Correctional Facility — a maximum security jail in Castaic run by the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department — were subjected to the process, according to the Los Angeles Times

The facility’s policy — in place since April 2014 — stated that deputies “shall” handcuff inmates to wall brackets in a seated position and that inmates’ feet “may” also be shackled to the floor, according to The Times.

When department officials found out about the policy — which was not in effect in any of the other county jails — it was replaced with a new department-wide policy specifying that inmates’ should be handcuffed, but not to a specific object.

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