LOS ANGELES - The American Civil Liberties Union is calling for sweeping changes at the Los Angeles County’s Men’s Central Jail.

Imagined it packed with inmates.

In a statement, the ACLU said that dangerous overcrowding at the jail causes or contributes to violence and mental illness.

Describing conditions at the facility as “nightmarish,” Margaret Winter, associate director of the ACLU National Prison Project, said that “Men’s Central Jail is so grossly overcrowded, dangerous and dungeon-like that it puts intolerable stress on the inmates, as well as the jailers.”

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