Photos: Concert outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles
Edna Monroy, 25, and other people use chalk to write messages on Alameda Street for inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles during a weekly concert series outside the lockup. (Christina House / For The Times)
Lucia Sanchez and her daughter Laura, 9, wave to inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center. Inmates include immigrants facing criminal charges for illegally entering the country after previously being deported. (Christina House / For The Times)
Mexican norteño band Los Cadetes de Linares performs outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown L.A. on Nov. 3 (Christina House / For The Times)
Mexican band Los Cadetes de Linares performs outside the Metropolitan Detention Center. The National Day Laborer Organizing Network plans to keep holding the weekly concerts till U.S. immigration policies are changed. (Christina House / For The Times)
A man waves to inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center during the National Day Laborer Organizing Network’s 4th Chant Down the Walls concert. (Christina House / For The Times)
