OCSD jail officials implement new strategies to combat increasingly violent inmate culture
0The jail riot began a couple hours after 3 p.m. chow time. Male inmates in a 64-person tank, unhappy with how they believed they should be treated in county jail, started lighting items on fire — mattresses, commissary items, stuff they smuggled in. The 6 p.m. uprising on Saturday, May 16, 2018 at the Central’s Men’s Jail in Santa Ana ultimately spread to the four tanks that make up the B Module, and then spilled over into the A Module. Fortunately, say jail officials, no staff members were injured during the two hours it took to quell the riot. Several…
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