Immigrant detainees file lawsuit over jail conditions

7:13 AM | April 2, 2009
LA Times

Federal authorities are violating immigrant detainees’ constitutional rights by holding them for weeks at a detention facility in downtown Los Angeles that was designed as a short-term processing center, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court.

The center is “regularly overcrowded, causing violence, safety hazards, and humiliation,â€