4 deputies hospitalized after inmate attack at Los Angeles Men’s Central Jail: LASD
Four deputies were sent to the hospital, including one who suffered a puncture wound, when multiple inmates were involved in an attack at the Men’s Central Jail in Los Angeles on Sunday. The ...
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Woman Sues LA Over Alleged Housing With Male Inmates Post-Transition
A transgender woman sued Los Angeles County, the Sheriff’s Department and Sheriff Robert Luna Thursday, alleging her civil rights were violated when she was housed with male inmates in the Twin Towers ...
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LASD Custody Assistant Admits to Sexually Assaulting Female Inmate
A former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department custody assistant is scheduled to be sentenced July 7 for his no contest ...
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‘Surge’ of violence prompts crackdown in California prison system, officials say
Faced with seven homicides in the first nine weeks of the year, California prison authorities announced they have restricted inmate movement ... State Prison-Los Angeles County, Mule Creek State ...
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Inside the alleged Mexican Mafia plot to smuggle heroin with an L.A. jail deputy
Even after it was deciphered, the coded message from jail seemed strange. In a recorded call, a Los Angeles County inmate recited a string of numbers to a woman on the other end of the line ...
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4 deputies injured in Men’s Central Jail attack, ‘jail made weapon’ recovered
Deputies who were allegedly attacked by several inmates at the Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles are recovering from their injuries Monday, and the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department is ...
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Brittany Holberg, inmate on Texas death row for 27 years, has her conviction tossed by federal appeals court
In securing her conviction in 1998, Randall County prosecutors heavily relied on testimony from a jail inmate ... prison that houses women on death row. One of those inmates is Melissa Lucio ...