ACLU wants to close Men's Central Jail

Describing it as a medieval dungeon that can "drive men mad," the ACLU on Tuesday called on the county to close Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles. Troy Anderson in the Daily News.

An official with the civil rights group who has studied some of the nation's worst prisons for the past 16 years said for the "sheer horror and brutality" Men's Central Jail is the "most nightmarish place I've seen."

Worse even than the notorious Death Row at the Mississippi State Penitentiary or the Maricopa County Jail in Phoenix, she said.