LA Justice Report Publishes First Part in Series on LA County Jails

The LA Justice Report, a collaboration between Spot.us and Celeste Fremon’s WitnessLA, has launched the first part of its investigative series “Dangerous Jails”–looking into the troubling realities of deputy abuse of inmates inside the LA County Jail network. Your humble Fishie was the lead reporter on the piece.

Among other findings, our story reports that only two days after the fight at the Sheriff’s Department’s Montebello Christmas party that left two deputies badly beaten at the hands of nearly a dozen of their colleagues–deputies on the third floor of Men’s Central Jail allegedly severely beat an inmate, stripped him naked and threw him in a cell with gang members, where he was raped multiple times.

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