inmates

And the award for the most ill-conceived escape plan of all time goes to... A group of California inmates were caught on surveillance video trying to intentionally infect themselves with coronavirus by sniffing a mask and drinking from the same water bottle, authorities said Monday. The “deeply disturbing” behavior at a Los Angeles County jail…

The Los Angeles County jail inmates had one goal in mind: get infected with the novel coronavirus so they could be released from custody. And they were going to do it together.One by one last month, groups of inmates inside the North County Correctional Facility in Castaic, Calif., drank from the same hot-water bottle and…

May 11, 2020 | 9:19pm Enlarge Image Los Angeles County sheriff Alex Villanueva AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File A group of California inmates are accused of trying to intentionally infect themselves with the coronavirus — thinking they would be set free if they contracted the contagion, authorities said Monday. Prisoners at the North County Correctional…

A group of L.A. County jail inmates intentionally tried to infect themselves with the novel coronavirus, hoping that they would then be set free. The scheme was discovered by a trustee inmate and recorded on video that was released by the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department.Read the full article: https://lat.ms/3cmufeESUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS AND NEWShttp://www.youtube.com/subscription_c...https://www.latimes.com/subscriptionLET’S CONNECT:Facebook…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Inmates at a Los Angeles County jail attempted to deliberately infect themselves with the coronavirus in an effort to win early release from custody, Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Monday.Villanueva said surveillance video captured last month at the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic shows inmates huddled…