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Violence from Racial Tension and Overcrowding Pervades California Jails, Spreads to Prisons
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2007
by Marvin Mentor
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2007, page 14
Filed under:
Classification,
Jail Misconduct,
Gang Policies,
Racial Discrimination,
Prison Rebellion,
Prison/Jail Murders,
Failure to Protect (General),
Overcrowding,
Staffing,
Lockdowns.
Location:
California.
by Marvin Mentor
Los Angeles (L.A.) County jail prisoners have been locked in interracial gang-controlled violence for the past year, and the unrest has spread to other jails and into California state prisons as prisoners pursue their simmering racially-charged disputes. Future stability seems doubtful. If California's prison system "desegregates," as ...
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