500 to 800 People Are Discharged Each Day From Downtown County Jail

Of course, many of these people are picked up by family or friends and taken home. But there are a good number of people who have no place to go. So they just walk a few blocks away to nearby Skid Row, and join the crowds of homeless on the streets.

After weeks and weeks of homeless “dumping” allegations, public officials are proposing a simple solution... release inmates back to their original neighborhoods. State Senator Gil Cedillo and State Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez plan to propose a new law in January to mandate this solution. Here's an extensive article on this.

The critics—many who are the leaders of the surrounding cities—disagree. They don’t want former inmates being “dumped” in their cities.

Clearly, however it’s not fair for downtown Los Angeles to be the “dumping” ground for former inmates. When Los Angeles County has more people than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware combined, there will be a lot of people being arrested. The Sheriff’s department handles 20,000 inmates per day from facilities around the county.

It’s not fair when all of these people who are incarcerated from around the county are released in only one part of the county—downtown.

For those who live in the bedroom-communities of suburbia… let’s be reasonable. If someone is arrested in your community, when he (or she) has finished jail time, he should be returned back to the community he came from. It just makes sense…