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    Race Riot in California Prison

    http://cbs2.com/local/local_story_035204559.html

    Feb 4, 2006 5:43 pm US/Pacific

    Sheriff Baca: Deadly Prison Riot Was Race-Related

    (CBS) CASTAIC, Calif. The Los Angeles County jail system is locked down this hour after a race riot in Castaic killed one inmate and injured more than 100.

    Sheriff Lee Baca says brawling between black and Hispanic prisoners at the North County Correctional Facility this afternoon was broken up with tear gas and stingball grenades.

    No guards were hurt but before the rioting ended a 45-year-old black inmate was dead.

    More than 100 other inmates were hurt, including 20 that were hospitalized with serious injuries.

    Baca said in response to the riot, he ordered a security lockdown for all 21,000 prisoners in the nation's largest jail system.

    He also ordered black and Latino inmates to be segregated.

    A sheriff's spokesman says about 2,000 inmates were involved in the brawling, which stemmed from a feud between black and Hispanic gangs.

    Steve Suzuki says racial tensions were high because a black gang member had stabbed a Latino gangster two days ago at the Men's Central Jail in Los Angeles.
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    http://www.washtimes.com/upi/20060205-091232-8624r.htm

    California jail race riot kills 1, 50 hurt
    Feb. 5, 2006 at 9:35AM
    A race riot in a maximum security prison north of Los Angeles has left one inmate dead, and nearly 50 others injured.

    More than 2,000 inmates went on a four-hour rampage Saturday at the prison in Castaic, 40 miles north of Los Angeles, that involved a core of about 200 inmates, the Los Angeles Times reported.

    The riot erupted about 3:30 p.m. when Latino inmates began throwing bunks and furniture from the upper level of a dormitory onto blacks occupying a lower-level day room, Sheriff Lee Baca said.

    More than 200 deputies responded to quell the mayhem that left 20 inmates with serious injuries and 26 others with minor injuries. No deputies were injured, Baca said.

    "It is a carry-over, in our opinion, from what is a feud between gangs in the Los Angeles South-Central area," Baca said. "It is essentially a brown-on-black incident today which led to the fighting that occurred in these dorms."

    Baca said he ordered the segregation of black and Latino prisoners in the facility despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling prohibiting such practices.

    "Human life is more important than appearance," he said.
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    wait the article above is the watered down one. Let me get the full story...


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    Nearly 2,000 Inmates Riot in Calif. Jail

    Feb 5, 6:44 AM (ET)

    By ANDREW DALTON




    CASTAIC, Calif. (AP) - Nearly 2,000 inmates rioted at a Southern California jail, throwing mattresses and banging heads against bunk beds, in an uproar that officials said stemmed from racial tensions. One inmate was killed.

    More than 100 inmates were wounded and 20 were hospitalized with serious injuries from the nearly hour-long melee on Saturday, authorities said. Smaller fights broke out for at least four hours after the main brawling ended.

    "The motivation appears to be racial tensions and a carry-over of a feud between black and Hispanic gangs," said Deputy Steve Suzuki, a sheriff's spokesman. Two days earlier, a Hispanic gang member was stabbed by a black gang member, he said.

    Black and Hispanic inmates were being segregated and a lockdown was ordered systemwide, Sheriff Lee Baca said.

    Authorities had information that a disturbance was imminent, but they didn't know the time or location, said Sam Jones, chief custody officer of the county jail system.

    A 45-year-old black inmate who was a registered sex offender was killed, Suzuki said. Twenty-six wounded inmates were treated at the jail; the 20 hospitalized inmates did not have life threatening injuries. No jail employees were injured.

    The North County Correctional Facility, about 40 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, is a maximum-security complex composed of five jails that together house about 4,000 inmates.

    It is illegal to segregate inmates based on race or ethnicity, but legal advisers said it can be done in emergency situations, Jones said.

    The jail has a history of race related riots. In 2000, a three-day riot at the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic injured more than 80 inmates, leaving one in a coma. Attorneys representing 273 black inmates filed a civil rights lawsuit alleging the sheriff's department failed to disarm Hispanic inmates.

    Several racially motivated brawls at Castaic jails in 1998 injured dozens of inmates. In 1996, 5,300 prisoners battled, leaving six guards and 123 inmates injured after the Mexican Mafia prison gang ordered an attack on blacks.

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    Tuesday, February 07, 2006


    Second Los Angeles prison riot blamed on racial tensions
    John Kraniou at 8:20 AM ET

    [JURIST] Rival black and Hispanic gangs took part in another racially motivated brawl late Monday evening at a Los Angeles County jail dorm, in a repeat of a similar brawl [JURIST report] last weekend which killed one inmate and injured more than 100 others. Sheriff Lee Baca [official profile] segregated roughly 90 inmates at the minimum security Pitchess Detention Center [official website] in an effort to curb violence that he attributed to gang rivalries, prison overcrowding, and too few guards.

    The US Supreme Court ruled last year in Johnson v. California [opinion] that state prisons cannot temporarily segregate inmates by race [JURIST report], except in the most extraordinary circumstances. Baca has said that inmates will remain segregated to keep prisoners from acting on gang rivalries. Baca also put the prison on partial lockdown, curbing certain privileges such as television, while allowing inmates to come and go to court and receive visitors. AP has more.
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    Violence-plagued L.A. jails plan to isolate most dangerous inmates


    By Robert Jablon
    ASSOCIATED PRESS

    3:22 p.m. February 7, 2006

    LOS ANGELES – Sheriff's officials said Tuesday they were working on a computerized plan to identify and isolate the most dangerous jail inmates but warned it would not prevent all future violence in an overcrowded and racially polarized system that exploded into deadly rioting last weekend.
    “We think it's going to be a revolutionary model for our jail and it's only a few weeks away,â€
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    http://www.latimes.com

    Unrest Flares Up Again at L.A. County Jail
    By David Pierson and Megan Garvey
    Times Staff Writers

    5:24 PM PST, February 8, 2006

    Nineteen inmates were injured today in a series of battles at the Los Angeles County jail facility in Castaic, where one prisoner recently was killed and dozens were wounded in racial fighting.

    More than 450 inmates were involved in the melees between Latino and African American inmates at the East Facility, which houses about 1,400 inmates. The disturbances took place this afternoon at the complex that also includes the North County jail and Pitchess Detention Center, about 40 miles from downtown Los Angeles.

    One black inmate suffered a serious head injury. Twelve black inmates and six Latinos were also injured, said Sheriff's Department spokesman Deputy Richard Pena.

    "We are interviewing the inmates now to see if anything was going on beforehand. We are not sure if it was actually planned to spread our resources thin or if it was a domino effect. We just don't know that yet," Pena said.

    The first incident occurred in a dorm with blacks fighting Latinos. Officials used tear gas and sting balls to stop the disturbance within five minutes, Pena said.

    However at 12:55 p.m. another fight involving 109 inmates broke out in a different dorm. Then, at 1:08 p.m., 112 inmates in a third dorm began to battle. The fourth skirmish was at 1:20 p.m., involving 108 inmates in yet another dorm, Pena said.

    The dorms are next to each other and each holds about 125 inmates, Pena said.

    Pena said at the time of the first incident there was no lockdown or segregation.

    "The top executives are aware of the situation. This is not a daily occurrence," Pena said

    On Saturday, Latino and African American inmates fought at North County, leaving one prisoner dead and more than 100 injured. There were more fights Monday, with inmates sustaining minor injuries.

    Authorities have blamed the initial riot on Latino inmates seeking vengeance for assaults they attributed to blacks.

    Inmate-on-inmate assaults at North County rose from 351 in 2003 to 614 last year. Most of the incidents were racially motivated, sheriff's officials said.
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    http://www.forbes.com/business/healthca ... 11622.html

    Update 2: Nineteen Injured in Latest L.A. Jail Brawl
    By JEREMIAH MARQUEZ , 02.08.2006, 08:58 PM

    Nineteen inmates were injured Wednesday in a series of racially motivated brawls at a county jail where deadly rioting occurred last weekend, authorities said.

    Four different fights involving more than 450 black and Hispanic inmates occurred at the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic, about 40 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, sheriff's officials said.

    Four inmates were transported to hospitals. Fifteen more were treated at the facility for minor injuries. No sheriff's deputies were hurt.

    All seven of the county's jails were placed on lockdown after the fights.

    Another section of the same detention center was hit with rioting Saturday between Hispanic and black inmates that killed one man and injured more than 100 others. It was followed by two other melees Monday night that caused one minor injury.

    Authorities were investigating the cause of Wednesday's disturbance.

    In previous incidents, they have alleged that gang leaders outside the jail called Hispanic associates inside and directed them to attack blacks as retaliation for a recent assault in South Los Angeles.

    In central California, four inmates were hurt in fighting that began Tuesday at the California Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, forcing authorities to place a prison unit on lockdown Wednesday.

    The fracas, which involved hundreds of black, Latino and white inmates, was not believed to be connected to the violence in the Los Angeles County jail, said corrections spokesman J.P. Tremblay.
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    http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_3482754

    Article Last Updated: 2/06/2006 10:40 PM


    Baca blasted on prison riot
    Sheriff claims budget was cut, officials disagree

    By Troy Anderson, Staff Writer
    Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

    Some 21,000 Los Angeles County Jail inmates remained locked down in their cells Monday as Sheriff Lee Baca faced increasing criticism about the shortage of deputies to secure the facilities and prevent racial rioting.
    County officials disputed Baca's contention that the high inmate-to-deputy ratio is the result of a $167 million cut from his budget since fiscal 2002-03. They pointed to documents showing that the Sheriff's Department's budget has actually grown by 14 percent since 2002-03 and that Baca has simply had to absorb $167 million in spending to cover some soaring costs, as for workers' compensation.

    "We did not cut his budget," said Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, who is up for re-election in June. "They can spin it or rationalize it any way they want. The board has actually increased the sheriff's budget for the last 10 years.

    "The budget shows ... annual increases to his budget have equaled or exceeded the growth in the general fund, with even greater percentage increases in patrol and administration."

    Over the past three years, officials said, the Sheriff's Department's annual budget has grown from $1.66 billion to $1.93 billion. At the same time, Baca's administrative budget has soared from $47 million to $74 million, and his patrol budget from $513 million to $631 million.

    Baca concedes he has received more money to pay for salaries and overtime, rising operating costs and assuming the $40 million contract to patrol Metropolitan Transportation Authority routes. But he still says he wasn't given enough money to prevent him from closing jails, giving early release to tens of thousands of inmates or cutting the ranks of deputies to balance his budget.

    "I've never made the accusation that the board callously ignored public safety," Baca said. "It was essentially the county being in a cash-poor position caused by recession and the state raiding local dollars that led to the belt-tightening."

    Combined with the slayings of eight inmates at Men's Central Jail in the past two years, the riots that claimed one life this weekend at the North County Correctional Facility in Castaic raise the question of whether the jails are adequately staffed.

    "Supervisor Yaroslavsky is correct that the sheriff's budget, to my knowledge, has never been cut," said Merrick Bobb, special counsel to the supervisors on the Sheriff's Department. "Nonetheless, there is serious understaffing at the county jails.

    "In particular, that is due to normal attrition plus unusually high rates of resignations as deputy sheriffs, tired of working five years or more in the jails, leave the department for what they perceive to be greener pastures, particularly in San Bernardino and Riverside counties," Bobb said.

    The genesis of the understaffing problem began earlier this decade when Baca's budget went $55 million into the red and he angered the supervisors by purchasing a $2.4 million airplane without their knowledge.

    Baca was also criticized for providing hundreds of take-home cars to executives and for spiraling overtime, expected to hit a record $159 million this year.

    The supervisors, who control how much money Baca gets but have little say in how he spends it, had sought to rein in Baca's spending by tightening controls over the purchases of fixed assets and asking Baca to balance his budget.

    Then in the summer of 2002, Baca threatened to begin releasing inmates early from the jails if the supervisors didn't increase his budget by $100 million.

    Shortly afterward, the supervisors made the first of what Baca characterized as $167 million in cuts in 2002-03 and 2003-04. In the following years, Baca campaigned for a sales tax increase of half of one percent, which voters rejected in 2004. Baca hopes to place a 0.25 percent sales tax hike on the ballot again this year to address gang violence.

    In 2002, Baca began closing jails and releasing inmates after they served 10 percent of their sentences. He also stopped hiring deputies for two years, resulting in a current shortage of about 1,100 deputies.

    And despite hiring 578 deputies last year, the department gained only a handful after attrition.

    The shortage of deputies has resulted in some of the highest inmate-to-deputy ratios in the nation, with one deputy to watch 50 inmates at the Castaic jail, which Bobb called a "very disturbing figure."

    At Men's Central Jail, the ratios range from one deputy per 33 inmates on the day shift to one deputy per 320 inmates in some dormitories, according to a recent Sheriff's Department report.

    "It is extremely difficult, with these ratios, to maintain a safe and secure environment," Bobb said. "It's very difficult, if not impossible."

    In 2004, Bobb recommended a ratio of one deputy per four inmates, which sheriff's officials say is cost-prohibitive.

    Baca said he expects to hire 1,000 deputies this year for a net gain of 600, helping him boost jail staffing toward a more realistic goal of one deputy per 10 or 15 inmates.
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    http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/08/jail.r ... index.html

    Police: 19 injured in jail race riot
    450 black, Hispanic inmates involved in brawls

    LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Nineteen inmates were injured Wednesday in a series of racially motivated brawls at a county jail where deadly rioting occurred just days ago, authorities said.

    Four different fights involving more than 450 black and Hispanic inmates occurred at the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic, about 40 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, sheriff's officials said.

    Four inmates were transported to hospitals. Fifteen more were treated at the facility for minor injuries. No sheriff's deputies were hurt.

    The fighting began after inmates housed in a group dorm separated along racial lines. The violence was quickly put down, but similar fights occurred in little more than an hour at three more dorms, leading deputies to fire sting balls on inmates to gain control, said sheriff's Sgt. Diane Hecht.

    All seven of the county's jails were placed on lockdown after the fights.

    Another section of the same detention center was hit with rioting Saturday between Hispanic and black inmates that killed one man and injured more than 100 others. It was followed by two other melees Monday night that caused one minor injury. (Read about the Saturday riot that left one inmate dead)

    Authorities were investigating the cause of Wednesday's disturbance.

    In previous incidents, they have alleged that gang leaders outside the jail called Hispanic associates inside and directed them to attack blacks as retaliation for a recent assault in south Los Angeles.

    In central California, four inmates were hurt in fighting that began Tuesday at the California Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, forcing authorities to place a prison unit on lockdown Wednesday.

    The fracas, which involved hundreds of black, Latino and white inmates, was not believed to be connected to the violence in the Los Angeles County jail, said corrections spokesman J.P. Tremblay.

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