Metropolitan Detention Center – Los Angeles

This place could seriously use more lighting. Whoever designed these windows should be burned at the stake. I’ll give another star if they bring the stake inside so that the fire would provide better lighting for us all.

This prison’s food is very fairly priced because it’s free but the quality is abysmal and the atmosphere is very aggressive. Furthermore the guards do very little to improve the energy of the room by failing use lively paint for the walls or provide ample lighting

If you are arrested for a federal crime in the central district of california (los angeles, orange county, ventura county, san bernardino & riverside counties) chance are that you’ll be brought to this facility, which is the on-​site jail for the downtown los angeles federal court house. The entrance is awkwardly located on alameda– no parking in the near vicinity plus it’s right by the freeway.
But once you’re inside it’s pretty decent– they bring the inmates down to you (at some federal detention centers you have to go the floor the inmate is on). I found the staff to be courteous and efficient while visiting a client, but that is generally the case with federal prison guards– they are civil servants and rank several rungs higher on the ladder then your average county sheriff’s deputy or private corporate prison guard.
One star because– hey– it’s jail.