AP: Gay prisoners claim abuses at L.A. jail

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Gay prisoners claim abuses at L.A. jail

August 7, 2005

LOS ANGELES – The Sheriff's Department is investigating claims by the American Civil Liberties Union that gay inmates were called derogatory names and strip-searched last month at a county jail.

About 20 gay inmates were forced to remove their clothes in a busy hallway July 19 at the Men's Central Jail while being called names and taunted with vulgar sexual language by some deputies, the ACLU said in a letter to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, citing inmates' claims. The ACLU said it wanted anti-discrimination training for all deputies.

County jails segregate gay inmates from other prisoners, keeping them in separate dormitories. The gay inmates were returning to their dorms on the third floor when they were allegedly mistreated, the ACLU said.

Associated Press


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[merh]

1. It's just a little frat house humor.

:sarcasm: Nothing to see here, move on. :sarcasm:

:cry: The cancer of this admin and it's approval and justification of the torture in Iraq (and other places) is dangerously spreading into our civilian lifes. :cry: