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According to the governor of Penal Colony No. 4, half of the thousand inmates who've volunteered so far are already dead.

Guards were stabbed there, a man died after being beaten by fellow inmates and the facility was understaffed.

According to prosecutors, he oversaw the lucrative schemes the Mexican Mafia uses to extract money from the 6,000 or so Latino prisoners who make up more than half of the county’s male inmate population.

The sheriff has faced criticism from opponents and advocates who say he has done too little to improve jail conditions, leading to a surge in inmate deaths this year.

Bailey, a three-and-half-year-old spaniel, had been used to help rehabilitate inmates.