How Newsom put female prisoners in danger – Latest News
Introducing male inmates into the non-public space of female inmates is past idiotic. It’s a recipe for catastrophe.
As the previous sheriff of Los Angeles County, I can say unequivocally that any law enforcement company charged with sustaining a state jail, a county jail, and even an in a single day holding facility, has the accountability of offering for the care of each individual detained therein.
In the outdated days, I bear in mind new inmates who claimed to be transsexual had been referred to our medical employees.
The rule that was enforced was easy, but extraordinarily efficient: If there was one thing hanging, the inmate was housed in the boys’s jails. If not, then the inmate was transferred to the female facility. Shockingly, it labored each time!
State prisons solely have convicted felons in California, and there are each male and female amenities.
State law mandates that sheriffs run county jails, not judges.
At one level during virtually 4 a long time in law enforcement, I used to be assigned to the Inmate Reception Center for male inmates in downtown Los Angeles. That was adopted by a stint because the watch commander of the ladies’s jail, referred to as the Century Regional Detention Facility. That facility housed roughly 2,100 female inmates at any given time.
A separate male inmate processing heart was walled off from contact with the female inmate population.
The causes had been apparent.
But depart it to the geniuses in Sacramento to disagree.
They determined that advantage signaling was more important than the core accountability of offering bodily security and security to weak populations within the confines of our prisons and jails.
Radical trans ideology has made its method into public coverage, with Gov. Gavin Newsom gleefully signing off on state Sen. Scott Wiener’s SB 132 in 2020, in spite of the dire warnings from correctional directors all over the place.
Allegations of rapes, pregnancies, and the unfold of HIV within correctional settings may be attributed on to the governor and state legislature’s callous indifference to the bodily and social wants of the female inmate population.
Tremaine Deon Carroll, who served time on the girls’s jail in Chowchilla, was charged with raping fellow inmates. CDC
That is why the federal investigation of California’s prisons is welcome. One can count on many lawsuits to comply with, with taxpayers footing the invoice. As the saying goes: If it’s predictable, it’s preventable.
Our county jail system to this present day homes LGBTQ inmates segregated from the final population. State law mandates that sheriffs, not judges, run county jails.
The similar goes for state prisons. However, in terms of gender, jail directors should comply with instructions from the governor’s workplace.
Every lawsuit that follows this insane coverage will study the situations of confinement in each facility.
I might love nothing more than to see politicians on the stand, below oath, defending the nightmare they’ve created for incarcerated girls (actual ones) throughout the state.
Alex Villanueva was sheriff of LA County from 2018 to 2022. He modified events from Democrat to Republican and is working to regain the workplace in 2026.
