One dead in California jail riot--segregation urged

[Hate Dept.]

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. (Watch riot police enter the jail strewn with mattresses -- 1:36)

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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There has been discussion about segregating the LA County Jail's prisoner population. Let's hope this will be good symbolism which will spur the segregation of our country.

[Adamic Man]

Only ONE dead? Why the hell do they try to stop these riots? And why the hell are they treating the wounded?!?!

AM

[grep14w]

Courts have ruled against attempts to racially segregate prisoners.

Last case I read the federal court essentially called the wardens liars (ie, refused to believe that mixing prisoners of different races leads to violence in spite of evidence that wardens provided) and told them "tough luck, it's your problem, fix it" but under no circumstances segregate prisoners by race.

Integrationist ideology trumps hard facts in AmeriKwa.

[JoeSixPack]

Originally Posted by grep14w

Courts have ruled against attempts to racially segregate prisoners.

Last case I read the federal court essentially called the wardens liars (ie, refused to believe that mixing prisoners of different races leads to violence in spite of evidence that wardens provided) and told them "tough luck, it's your problem, fix it" but under no circumstances segregate prisoners by race.

Integrationist ideology trumps hard facts in AmeriKwa.

NPR had a commentator on earlier this evening (on my way home from work) who analyzed the situation. Apparently, the Jewpreme Court ruled that prison segregation was unlawful unless absolutely necessary to maintain order. It was the commentator's opinion that this situation met that test.

Of course, we should apply that test to the rest of the country... Next time niggers riot, lock down the ghetto