LOS ANGELES — A federal judge on has signed a temporary restraining order addressing Los Angeles County jail conditions that a civil rights group called “barbaric.”
The order signed Friday by U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson bars the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department from holding a person in the overcrowded jail system’s inmate reception center for more than 24 hours.
Deputies at the center’s clinic will be barred from handcuffing, chaining or tethering a person to a chair “or any other object” for more than four hours and from keeping more people in holding cells than allowed by state regulations “without first exhausting every other means.”
