In a letter to Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland, four U.S. senators described conditions in L.A. County jails as a “humanitarian crisis”
The federal government started investigating Los Angeles jails in 1996 — back when Bill Clinton was president, the Spice Girls were all the rage, and Tupac Shakur’s killing dominated the news.mentally ill inmates had been abused or cared for so poorly that their basic constitutional rights were violated. Those concerns led to a lawsuit and years of federal monitoring.
The lawmakers laid out a series of questions — about what steps the Justice Department had taken to correct the problems, how it was managing the federal monitors and how many lawyers had been assigned to the cases — and requested a reply within two weeks. Four months later, the senators’ offices confirmed that they had not received a response. The Department of Justice on Friday acknowledged only that it had received the letter.
“In the past year, conditions in many jails across the country, including Los Angeles, have deteriorated to a crisis point of disgraceful inhumanity,” she said. “It is noteworthy that jail conditions are so abysmal that these four U.S. senators — including both of California’s senators — called on Atty. Gen. Garland and DOJ to step up and address the human rights violations in the jails that are under DOJ consent decrees.
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