The civil rights organization cites detainees chained to chairs for days in filthy conditions with no access to toilets, among other abuses.
At least two people have died at the IRC this year, according to the ACLU, which said most recently a 72-year-old man died in June after being held there for two days without receiving a medical evaluation.recently published a reportACLU Senior Staff Attorney Melissa Camacho-Cheung said people need to know about what she called “human rights violations happening in their backyard.”
“The county has been aware of the dire situation of the IRC all summer,” Camacho-Cheung told LAist. “It’s a crisis. It’s a humanitarian crisis. I certainly hope that now that there’s the threat of court involvement, that the county will be forced to respond and act quickly, and treat this like the emergency that it is.”
Supervisors passed the ambitious Care First, Jails Last funding plan in 2021, approving nearly half a billion dollars to explore alternatives to incarceration and jail reform efforts. Supervisor Kathryn Barger faulted her fellow supervisors for voting to close Men’s Central Jail “without a replacement plan … I believe the conditions at the Inmate Reception Center are a direct result of that policy direction and a void it has created.”Back to TopA photo from the ACLU court filing shows an incarcerated person curled up sleeping under an interview booth in the Inmate Reception Center in downtown L.A.
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