MCJ, as many dub it, is a cauldron of racial tension where violence is easily stirred by a fluctuating daily population of 3,900 to 4,700 inmates packed in close quarters. And this year, seven of the county’s own jailers were convicted as part of an ongoing federal investigation into obstruction of justice and use of excessive force against inmates.
The scene seems all but impossible inside this tough, urban jail, one of the largest in the world, outfitted with 1,000 security cameras and employing some 500 Sheriff’s deputies as jailers, where hardened inmates sometimes manage to murder other inmates. Shortly before, Yah Yah, one of four inmates approved by the Sheriff’s Department to speak to, and be videotaped by, the newspaper, had been explaining, “You’re allowed to be with whomever you want to, talk to whomever you want and do whatever you want to, basically, as long as you do it in a respectable way.” The impromptu fashion show broke out the moment after inmates spotted L.A. They twitch their hips and seem to be having the time of their lives as scores of men and transgender women whoop and shout out unprintable encouragements.
Two other inmates, both with long dark hair and wearing form-fitting minidresses, jostle to be the next to parade down the aisle. Her infectious energy lights up the locked, windowless room filled with roughly 140 inmates. Laughing onlookers chant, “Work it, Yah Yah!” “Perform honey!” “Better work that runway!”Ĭatwalking on the balls of her feet as another inmate improvises syncopated beats by banging on a metal bed frame using a plastic spoon and a plastic 7-Up bottle, Yah Yah is in her element.
She’s flaunting a white cotton halter-top baby-doll dress and matching white Cinderella gloves, hand-crafted for her by one of the trans women inside this infamously tough downtown L.A. Williams, a transgender inmate known on the inside as Yah Yah, glides past a hooting and hollering crowd of her fellow gay and transgender inmates, perched atop their beds for a prime view.
You really know how to tease us with your public bromances.With rouged lips, long hair and a strut that would give Naomi Campbell pause, Dave Williams, 47, works the 75-foot runway that stretches between crowded rows of green chipped-paint bunk beds at the L.A. and that was after the two have publicly declared their love for each other and called each other "husbands." In the past few months alone, he broke the internet with his Spider-Man: Far From Home costar Tom Holland after doing weird-but-kinda-hot shirtless handstands. It's safe to say it's been a wild (but fun) year for Jake during all this the worldwide quarantine madness. "We’re going to start this off with Chris is the only uncircumcised one amongst the four of us, which was a mystery to us as young boys because we only knew the penis to be one way," Gyllenhaal, who has worked with Amy on her Comedy Central show Inside Amy Schumer before, said in his toast.
Specifically, how he himself is circumcised, while Chris is the only person in their friend group who isn't.
The Brokeback Mountain legend made an appearance in Amy Schumer's new HBO Max documentary Expecting Amy, a three-part series that chronicles the comedian and actor's pregnancy journey with her husband and chef Chris Fischer (who Jake is childhood friends with), and during a scene in the doc where Jake and two other childhood friends are giving a toast to Chris and Amy during their 2018 wedding, Jake gets hilariously candid about their. If you've ever been curious about what Oscar-nominated actor Jake Gyllenhaal is working with down there, well then I guess today is your lucky day.