Mental health housing unit at Twin Towers Correctional Facility
An inmate in the High Observation Mental Health Housing unit covers his face while the media tour the Twin Towers Correctional Facility. Some inmates who are at high risk for suicide are required to wear a special wrap-around garment (on the table next to the inmate) in the facility.
(Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies use electronic devices to log the location of each inmate in the High Observation Mental Health Housing unit in the Twin Towers Correctional Facility.
(Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)Sometimes inmates are chained to tables for security reasons in the High Observation Mental Health Housing unit at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility.
(Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)Inmates in High Observation Mental Health Housing get some recreation time with sunlight in some of the newer holding cells in the Twin Towers Correctional facility.
(Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)A deputy walks past one of the Mental Health Housing pods in the Twin Towers Correctional Facility.
(Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)An inmate in the High Observation Mental Health Housing unit sits at his desk in one of the cells at the Twin Towers Correctional facility. Elsewhere in the unit there are new holding cells and fresh paint, components of the changes being made in light of the U.S. Department of Justice report on suicides in the jail.
(Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)A Bible rests on a window frame in the High Observation Mental Health Housing unit in the Twin Towers Correctional Facility.
(Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)Some of the inmates who present a suicide risk in the High Observation Mental Health Housing are required to wear a special wrap-around garment in the Twin Towers Correctional Facility.
(Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)An inmate wearing a bio-hazard suit cleans the floors, cells and stairs in the High Observation Mental Health Housing unit in the Twin Towers Correctional Facility.
(Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)A deputy checks on one of the inmates in the High Observation Mental Health Housing unit at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility.
(Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)