Serving Hard Time the Easy Way

"...several local cities offer jail accommodations that might be considered a cut above the standard accommodations available in the Los Angeles County women's lockup....$127 a night for three hot meals and a cot, and live in a dorm that's separate from the housing offered to inmates awaiting arraignment, or those sleeping it off in the drunk tank. We ask that our inmates pay in advance with a money order or cashier's check," Pasadena police Cmdr. John Perez said. "It's safe here. We won't take people with a history of violence or medical problems." The best justice money can buy. After all, it's the American way.