Eight folks on the girls’s jail in Lynwood have been hospitalized Tuesday afternoon after they have been uncovered to a “poisonous substance,” based on the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division.
Simply earlier than 5 p.m., deputies at Century Regional Detention Facility responded to a medical emergency involving a number of incarcerated girls, the division mentioned in a information launch.
Deputies “supplied lifesaving measures” earlier than Los Angeles County Hearth Division personnel transported six inmates and two staff to the hospital, officers advised The Instances.
“All of the females have been acutely aware and respiratory on the time of being transported,” the Sheriff’s Division mentioned Tuesday night. On Wednesday morning, an official mentioned all eight folks have been in secure situation.
The division didn’t present any details about the ages of the affected inmates or whether or not they have been all housed in the identical unit.
Officers didn’t say what substance the inmates and workers could have been uncovered to or whether or not it was believed to be a bootleg drug or different sort of poisonous chemical.
