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The Metropolitan Detention Center, Los Angeles (MDC Los Angeles) is a United States federal prison in downtown Los Angeles, California which holds male and female inmates prior to and during court proceedings, as well an inmates serving short sentences. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/los/index.jsp )〕 ==History== MDC Los Angeles opened in December 1988. With the opening of the $36-million Metropolitan Detention Center, Los Angeles became the fifth major urban area in the country to have a downtown federal prison and the first in the nation to adopt a prison-wide no-smoking policy. The high-tech, 272,000-square-foot facility, with its balconies, sunny atrium and expansive plate-glass windows, does have more the look of a downtown office building than a prison. The cells are not cells, they are "rooms," complete with bunk beds and wooden doors; the common areas are equipped with microwave ovens and hot lines to the public defender's office; there is not an iron bar in sight. Before then, federal prisoners awaiting trial and sentencing were kept 25 miles south at the Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island, which was designed to house only medium-security prisoners who had already been sentenced. Filled to nearly double its capacity since it began housing pretrial and convicted but not-yet-sentenced prisoners in 1981, FCI Terminal Island prison was plagued with a rash of escapes and attempted escapes among the higher-security inmates it was forced to accommodate. The opening of MDC Los Angeles allowed prisoners whose trials are pending to be housed just two blocks from the U.S. District Courthouse, ending the time-consuming process of transporting them back and forth down the Harbor Freeway each day court is in session. The U.S. Marshal's Service saves at least $200,000 a year by not having to transport the usual 250 to 300 prisoners a week from FCI Terminal Island and the federal public defender's office saves $18,000a year in telephone bills alone because it no longer has to rely on clients calling person-to-person collect from FCI Terminal Island. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Metropolitan Detention Center, Los Angeles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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