Los Angeles County Jail Analysis

A former slave Bridget Biddy Mason was held in Los Angeles County Jail due to her owner demanding her and her children to come back to him but she won her freedom and became a nurse at the county jail where she worked until her contract expired but still came and volunteer. Even though there’s no record of what she saw, according to Lytle Hernandez “Biddy undoubtedly watched as Native people arrested on public order charges weekly filled the danked cells of the L.A. County Jail. She would have seen Natives tied to the log out front and sold to the highest white bidder” (Lytle Hernandez, 51). This is important to class because we can see how black and brown people often get pushed to jobs that nobody want but she also witnessed how they sold …show more content…
“His work crew, a chain gang of incarcerated men, had constructed a low-slung facility sited along the Los Angeles River and beneath the Elysian Hills - a "stockade," Dixon called it - the newest addition to the Los Angeles jail system” (Lytle Hernandez, 56). This is important to class because we can see how a person of high authority can easily make structures in order to incarcerate people, today we can see how the state of California has more prisons more than universities and where it spends lots of …show more content…
The Spanish crown made multiple travels and attempts to find gold but found nothing at all, in one of those travels the Spanish traveled by land and not by sea and brought with them, all kinds of cattle and they decided to stay due to geopolitics. “This story is vital because there is no evidence that Tongva-Gabrielino communities ever tried or experienced human cagin until the Spanish Crown dispatched a small group of colonists to establish the City of Angels in 1781. One of the structures these colonists built was a jail. In time, the colonists and their descendants filled the jail with indios” (Lytle Hernandez, 16?). This is important for class because we can see how settlers were able to destroy a whole civilization by implementing law, creating this ideology were they are better than them by creating a caste system, making them criminals and building jails. The Indigenous tribe had to follow their new laws and if they didn’t then prison was the only way to make them follow the law so it’s similar to what happens today with black and brown people, the government and police mostly target black and brown people mainly because they think they are