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Perspective

Feb. 13, 2016

Jail in LA County: kind of like love

Like love, being the Los Angeles County jail means "never having to say you are sorry." By Robert L. Bastian Jr.

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By Robert L. Bastian Jr.

How, given Valentine's Day is around the corner, does being the Los Angeles County jail resemble love?

"No person deserves to be incarcerated without good reason," the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reiterates in the recently decided Garcia v. County of Riverside, 2016 DJDAR 1143 (Feb. 3, 2016). It follows that, "an incarceration on a warrant without a reasonable investigation of identity, when the circu...

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