the ACLU of Southern California. They have filed an 86-page complaint against the LA County Sheriff’s department for torture. Seventy of the 86 pages are testimonies from survivors and those who were witnesses to torture. The report, which includes prisoners’ testimony and that of jailhouse chaplains who could not be silent, reveals that under the watch of Sheriff Lee Baca, torture in the LA County Jail was, for at least two decades, pervasive, gruesome, systemic and routine.
