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Downtown Los Angeles
Plumbing Woes Plague New Twin Towers Jail
 

Talk about cruel and unusual punishment.
     A plumbing problem at the stateoftheart Twin
Towers jail downtown left thousands of inmates with toilets
that backed up and couldn't be flushed, authorities said
Tuesday.
     While some inmates complained about serving
unnecessarily hard time during the weekend mishap, sheriff's
officials said a team of plumbers had worked around the clock
to fix the problem at the $373million facility, which was
opened in January.
     Officials said there were no mishaps, illnesses or
injuries, but acknowledged that some female inmates at one
section of the jail just could not wait for the pipes to be
repaired and used a plastic bag as a makeshift toilet.


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