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Judge Slams County Over Inmate Stays
The Long Beach Press Telegram, Article –February 2, 2005
In a case where a citizen is suing the County of Los Angeles because the County Jail kept him in jail seven days after the parole board ordered him free, the Superior Court Judge, Margaret Ann Nagle, ordered the County of Los Angeles to pay $54,000 in discovery sanctions because County lawyers failed to turn over evidence about other citizens who have been held in the County Jail beyond their release dates. In 2001, the County paid $27 million to settle five cases claiming that 400,000 citizens had been either held past their release dates, were the victims of mistaken identity, or were illegally strip-searched.
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