In Men’s Central Jail, they say, there is almost always something burning. But there are no smoke alarms where inmates live.

Signs of squalor are everywhere: inmates sleeping on floors, rotting food, piles of trash, inoperable toilets, broken pipes, lack of hygiene supplies. But political paralysis remains.

The decaying eyesore that is Men’s Central Jail has sparked an impressively broad array of health and safety concerns in recent years. There were the fires, the rats, the drugs, the mold and the ...

In a better world it would be rather touching, the way that for many years now — for decades — the members of the Los Angeles ...

For over a decade now, Los Angeles has debated the fate of Men’s Central Jail, a massive, outdated facility located in the county detention complex near downtown. When it began, the debate was about ...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department held a media event at the reopening of the library at the Men’s Central Jail, which had been shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The library is ...

For over a decade now, Los Angeles has debated the fate of Men’s Central Jail, a massive, outdated facility located in the county detention complex near downtown. When it began, the debate was ...

Men’s Central Jail should be closed and then replaced by a locked, medically oriented facility. The old, sensible plan for the Mental Health Treatment Center (with 3,500 to 4,000 beds) ...