Archbishop José Gomez greets inmates after the Christmas Day Mass at Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles. (Ringo Chiu / For The Times) During the winter of 1940, when its jail was a single ...
All over Southern California, Christmas morning was filled with robust choruses belting holiday tunes … but none quite like the singalong that broke out at Los Angeles County’s Men’s Central Jail, on ...
During the winter of 1940, when its jail was a single building with fewer than 2,000 inmates, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department pulled out all the stops. The Salvation Army led hymns under ...