Empty jail
A misdemeanor suspect sits in a holding cell at the Los Angeles Police Department’s dilapidated old downtown jail. The LAPD has a new jail sitting unused because the city’s fiscal crisis doesn’t allow the department to hire the additional jailers needed to run it.
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A visitor talks to a felony arrestee in the visiting area of
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Arrestees lie on their beds on the felony floor of the LAPD‘s old central jail. The department moved to new downtown headquarters last year but had to keep the jail in a back corner of the old Parker Center facility open.
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Monitors line a control tower at the
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Skylights let natural light into a section of cells at the unused new jail.
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A single-man cell in the $74-million, 172,000-square-foot new jail, which is wired with security cameras and has automated security doors, electronic fingerprinting stations, central air conditioning and sound-dampening panels. All that’s missing are inmates -- and, especially, enough staff to manage them.
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