California jail system is a business; Alameda County arrests the innocent, journalists, poor to intimidate dissenters, finance expansion of universally corrupt prison gulag system
HUFFINGTON POST
By Ed Mazza
03/27/2015
Inmates at a San Francisco jail were forced into "
gladiator-style fights" by sheriff's deputies who bet on the outcomes, according to a public defender.
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Prison system the main industry in California |
The two were promised hamburgers for winning, and "threatened with Mace, handcuffed beatings, and transfers to dangerous housing quarters if they refused to fight," the news release said. And when both men were injured in the fight, they were told they would be beaten if they sought medical attention.
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Feral pigs at Santa Rita, California beat, starve, brutalize
inmates for kicks and to relieve boredom
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And he told me he was going to Mace me and cuff me if I didn’t." Garcia said, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
“And he told me anything goes. Just don’t punch the face so no one can basically see the marks. But anything goes, other than the face,” he was quoted as saying.
Harris also described the fights.
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Overcrowding at Santa Rita medieval, leading to disease, malnutrition and brutalisation by illiterate, criminal, sadist guards |
Inmates also allege that Neu liked to gamble with them -- but the stakes would often be their own possessions and food.
Neu was accused of forcing a male and female inmate to perform sex acts on him in a 2006 case that was settled out of court, the public defender's office said.
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California prisons some of the worst in the U.S.; many of the incarcerated are completely innocent |
Adachi said he was going to wait until his clients were safely out of the jail before going public. But when he learned of another fight set for next week, he took action.
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Coward, feral Alameda Country pigs shot and almost killed
Marine Corps Veteran Scott Olsen at Oakland Occupy protests
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Four deputies have been transferred to positions where they will have no contact with inmates while the accusations are investigated, and two bailiffs who knew about the fights but didn't say anything about them may also be reassigned.
The two inmates have also been transferred to another jail for their protection.
“I do not accept any kind of culture within our county jail system that would resort to such barbaric or unlawful activity as these deputies have demonstrated,” San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi told CBS San Francisco.
The jail on the 7th floor of the Hall of Justice should have been
shut down long agobecause there are areas that can't be seen on surveillance cameras, he told Bay City news.
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Coward Alameda County pigs arrest Marine Corps Veteran Sgt. Ed Mayer at union protest in San Francisco, taking out leadership to quell labor unrest |
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The conduct alleged against these Sheriff’s Department deputies is deplorable," the San Francisco District Attorney's Office said in a statement cited by NBC Bay Area. "Common sense indicates that such conduct does not occur without the knowledge of numerous people. These allegations require an independent and thorough investigation into the practices and supervision at the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department."
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