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ACLU releases expert's report documenting how brutally overcrowded conditions cause or contribute to violence and serious mental illness in Los Angeles County's aging Men's Central Jail, and demands that county officials swiftly implement changes to prevent unnecessary deaths or serious injuries.
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Alarmed at the prospect of further overcrowding and violence in Los Angeles County's jails, the ACLU asks a judge to prevent the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department from closing a 1,600-bed jail facility without first preparing a detailed plan to cope with the potential for a serious worsening of conditions in other jails.
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After receiving more than 70 complaints over a five-month period in 2010 from prisoners who describe a climate of fear and brutality, the ACLU and the ACLU of Southern California release a disturbing new report on the Los Angeles County Jail that documents numerous, serious allegations of physical abuse and retaliation at the hands of sheriff's deputies.
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An LA TV station reports on a group of sheriff?s deputies who act like a street gang themselves, and have been linked to violence in and out of Men?s Central Jail.
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Several chaplain and other civilian eyewitnesses document brutal beatings of Los Angeles County Jail inmates by sheriff's deputies as part of an annual report on the county's jail system released by the ACLU.
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Rachel Maddow highlights ACLU report on abuse in LA County Jails
On January 18, 2012, the ACLU and ACLU of Southern California filed a federal class action lawsuit charging Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca and his top command staff with condoning a longstanding, widespread pattern of violence by deputies against inmates in the Los Angeles County jails.
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