On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to fundamentally change their plan to replace the unhealthy and unsafe Men’s Central Jail facility with a shiny new high-tech mental health jail known as the Consolidated Correctional Treatment Facility (or CCTF). Now, the nearly uninhabitable, 1963-built downtown LA jail facility will be replaced by—not another jail—but by a new “Mental … Continue reading In Historic Move, LA County Supervisors Vote to Dump New $2.2 Billion Jail Project In Favor of New Mental Health Treatment Center No Longer Overseen by the Sheriff’s Dept.