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# Letter
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/letter-49/
- Published: 2022-09-16T11:03:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-11T23:47:01.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Letters, Opinion, letter, letter to the editor, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 12:28

Editor:

If Supervisor Kuehl’s home is fair game for a visit from Sheriff Villanueva, then the LA County Jail should be as well. According to a new lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, inmates, many with mental-health issues, are being forced to sleep on urine-soaked floors, among other abuses to which they are subjected.

Those sheriffs’ deputies banging on Supervisor Kuehl’s door in the early-morning hours were expensive. They represented our tax dollars. And their energies would have been far better deployed elsewhere - such as wielding mops and buckets to clean up the jail.

Joan Walston, Santa Monica