The jail symbolizes how L.A. became āthe carceral capital of the world,ā as UCLA scholar Kelly Lytle Hernandez has put it. Even before it was a big city, L.A. was a pioneer in caging peopleāāthe Indigenous, Chinese migrants, white vagrants, Mexican migrants, and Black people.
Criminal Justice
Mathews: Turn a notorious jail into a center for democracy
The jail symbolizes how L.A. became āthe carceral capital of the world,ā as UCLA scholar Kelly Lytle Hernandez has put it. Even before it was a big city, L.A. was a pioneer in caging peopleāāthe Indigenous, Chinese migrants, white vagrants, Mexican migrants, and Black people.
