Empty jail

A visitor talks to a felony arrestee in the visiting area of the LAPD‘s old downtown jail.
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Arrestees lie on their beds on the felony floor of the LAPD‘s old central jail. The department moved to new downtown headquarters last year but had to keep the jail in a back corner of the old Parker Center facility open.
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The LAPD’s new state-of-the-art jail languishes unused.
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Monitors line a control tower at the LAPD‘s new jail.
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Skylights let natural light into a section of cells at the unused new jail.
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A single-man cell in the $74-million, 172,000-square-foot new jail, which is wired with security cameras and has automated security doors, electronic fingerprinting stations, central air conditioning and sound-dampening panels. All that’s missing are inmates -- and, especially, enough staff to manage them.
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