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Violence from Racial Tension and Overcrowding Pervades California Jails, Spreads to Prisons

by Marvin Mentor

Los Angeles (L.A.) County jail prisoners have been locked in interracial gang-controlled violence for the past year, and the unrest has spread to other jails and into California state prisons as prisoners pursue their simmering racially-charged disputes. Future stability seems doubtful. If California's prison system "desegregates," as ...

 

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