LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson ruled Monday that the Los Angeles Police Department has been engaging in unconstitutional searches of the homeless on Skid Row.
LOS ANGELES - Dangerous, grossly overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in Los Angeles County's jail system are worse than they were six months ago when a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order for the county to clean up the facility, according to legal papers filed today in U.S.
Recent detainees at Los Angeles County's Men's Central Jail tell horror stories.
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Statement of Ramona Ripston, executive director of the ACLU of Southern California: