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'This is like p r ' Beach'sa adlse .• Seal pay-to-stay actively markets its jail, attracting offenders By ALYSIA SANTO(III PS/ noxc/srAFF/ALYSVICTORIA KIM Q-TTI -B[avtcmIun- KIM-STAFF.ITTML1 AN DANNA FLAGG(H'!`IPSJ 7&CIS(>BC/STAFF/ANNA-FLAGG) M Ara II 2017 This stop'ma published in partnership with the Marshall Project(httpr//wwwthemarshalprojtrt.ory/) Sitting at a picnic table under azure skies last fall,a 37-year-old onetime CEO of a financial services company contemplated his good fortune. Sure,he was surrounded by a barbed wire fence,and lunch was frozen hot dogs and string beans being thawed in a bare-bones kitchen.But the alternative was Orange County jail,where he would be warehoused in barracks with hundreds of others,where alliances ran along racial lines and fights broke out daily. Jack,who asked to be identified by his nickname because his young children thought he's in New York on an extended business trip,was Support Quality Journalism Subscribe for only 99¢ paying$100 a night for the privilege of serving his 90-day sentence for START NOW> 1 a One reason the program is so lucrative for the small city is that it accepts • more inmates charged with serious crimes—who tend to have longer sentences—than other cities. From 2011 through 2015,people convicted of crimes involving vi'ulence, threats of violence or sex-related offenses made up more than 16%of the Seal Beach jail's 326 paying customers.That was a higher proportion than any other city with a significantly-sized programs,It housed twice as many_ inmates convicted of assault,sex crimes,battery,domestic violence or r bbery compare with Anaheim,which is more than 10 times its size. • spokesman for Anaheim said the city recently shut down its pay-to-stay '- program"based on restructuring and efficiency of operations." Seal Beach,meanwhile,has actively marketed its jail. 1';r*... t'•. .v"-' 1t e s,c,•oC;rR • SACK it%,t a �� siva-1'A a•� Zv ., `:�,•- -� „t• ��:•: e•Ela Re\e's .eAN RM • . s •\ J 01 �te� rr peva Be „�.�ti. or n�oc�\n \ Go"• �,��(• 111,1 Go co ��o_conk*16 of att.. veteI .. YhC1tV._ An advertisement placed in LA Weekly in 2013 for the pay-to-stay program at Seal Beach.(Photo illustration by Celina Fand for the Marshall Project) As recently as 2013,the city took out an ad in L.A.Weekly advertising its flat screen TVs,a computer and media room,and cleanliness—"Why spend your jail sentence of 365 days or less at county?" Sgt.Steve Bowles of the Seal Beach Police Department said he regularly meets with judges and prosecutors and attends defense attorney luncheons to get the word out about his jail,and has taken out ads on bar associat'.. —7 it- "A- websites.The jail was also featured in o•a s ow segment on NBC. G Seal Beach was the jail of choice for Los Angeles Kings defenseman Slava Voynov when he was sentenced to 90 days in 2015 for an incident of domestic violence that left his wife covered in blood and with a gash above her eye that required eight stitches. Bowles,who runs Seal Beach's paying program,said it's not the city's role to decide who is allowed the pay-to-stay option. "We look at it as,it's already been agreed to and vetted by the D.A.,the judge and the defense attorney,"he said."We're here to fulfill our role in the criminal justice system." Support Quality Journalism START NOW> Subscribe for only 990 BUSCEMI •NOONAN& ASSOCIATES - r r,�, _ •iit ? CHtXKCATI{Y NOON BUSCE)E C 5E1592.9826 7I4.84 8288 CLICK HERE 13RDOWiiS3.9Z.OP_i'e Ci WE MAKE WATERFRONT F(RSTTEAA4 DREAMS COME TRUE w.cv.wnngccoiruycotsta6rully.cam • . ADVERTISEMENT driving under the influence of heroin in Seal Beach's pay-to-stay jail. "This is like paradise,"the Orange County man said. He got a taste of the more typical jail experience when he served his first 17 days in Orange County's Theo Lacy Jail.He said his defense attorney was able to get the case transferred to a different judge and get him pay-to-stay jail for the remainder of his sentence. Your System Status WE'RE SORRY! You need to update your Flash Player. lat.tY,►t,,.wrut 7 (http://www.adobe.com/go/getflash/) rwtr IMPORTANT:After installing the required upgrade please reload this browser window to view the video player. He handed over a$7,300 cashier's check without hesitation.Here in Seal Beach,he was sharing his quarters with three 2o-somethings.There was a large selection of DVDs and books,the hot water never ran out,and he was treated like a human being,he said. In the marketplace of jail beds for rent in Southern California,Seal Beach has gained a reputation as the go-to jail for many deep-pocketed offenders. . Seal Beach's pay-to-stay program generates more revenue than any other 34,5-- i) ..sttyja I,A.and gLange counties,a review of records shows.In the fiscal . / year ending last June,Seal Beach took in$26.9,000 from paying inmate - aking up close to half of ie jail's total budget of$766 662. ,.• ity 17�/_r )_ • 24'o more pay-to-stay revenue than Anaheim,th second-most l� �(f G e ucrative facility in the Times-Marshall Project review. Support Quality Journalism Subscribe for only 99¢ START NOW> Jack said he was thankful for the pay-to-stay option.Between his stint in county jail and in Seal Beach,he said he'd learned enough of a lesson for this time,his third DUI,to be his last.Some day,he will probably tell his children about the experience as a cautionary tale,he said. "I'm really happy I was able to come here,"he said."But you need the money to do it." aha • •4 Upgrade your jail cell-for a price:Pay- ': ift/EffLy to-stay option allows even those i convicted of serious crimes a safer,more ' J 110 comfortable stay Read the story (/projects/la-me- , /projects/la-me- :, pay-to-stay-jails/) (/projects/la-me-pay-to-stay-jails/) Credits:Produced by Lily Mihalik. More from the Los Angeles Times SubscribeLog In I Register 44 Comments powered by: (http://viafoura.com) Write your comment here Upload video Upload image Submit Follow Newest • Terms of Service(//www.tronc.com/central-terms-ot•servlce/)I Privacy(//www.tronc.com/privacy-policy/)I Ads(//www.latlmes.caNlat-about-our-ads.0.3875412.htmistory)I®2017(//www.latimes.comfservices/site/la-repnnt-request- splash.0.6731163.htmistory)I(//www.latimes.com/about/) Support Quality Journalism Subscribe for only 990 START NOW>