LA County Supervisors took a step to fix the troubled jail system, voted to add mental health beds to Twin Towers jail.
Part of the Twin Towers jail in Los Angeles will be used to treat inmates with severe mental illness, a way to provide emergency care and evaluate those who may be a danger to themselves or others, according to an action approved Tuesday, May 16, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
“This will create a more organized system inside the jail to deal with the most acutely mentally ill,” Fifth District Supervisor Kathryn Barger, a co-author of the motion, said during an interview Tuesday. “You will have individuals who will not be diverted into the community. That’s why we need to start building this infrastructure.”
“It is important for us to put something in place right now,” Barger said. “Especially since we’ve got the DOJ looking at what we are doing, and they are none too pleased.”Since the huge Twin Towers jail opened in 1997, “it has become the largest de facto mental health institution in the United States,” the county reported.
This new program proposed in the Twin Towers jail is part of an effort to reach that segment of the inmate population and treat those who are most acutely ill.
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