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Fights, beatings and a birth: Videos smuggled out of L.A. jails reveal violence, neglect


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Jun. 24, 2023

Fights, beatings and a birth: Videos smuggled out of L.A. jails reveal violence, neglect

A brutal 20-minute clip is one of a few dozen graphic videos from the past six years saved to a thumb drive picked out of the trash by one inmate, and later secreted out of Men's Central Jail by another. Together they paint a picture of a jail system awash in far more violence and disarray than previously revealed to the public.

Several of the clips recently reviewed by The Times show stabbings and fist fights. Some of the videos, all apparently taken from the jails' surveillance systems, show men so inured to violence that they continue on with their daily routine.

Officials were not immediately able to determine who made the compilation of videos or why, and Assistant Sheriff Sergio Aloma, who oversees the jails, said any investigation would be difficult without a copy of the drive that contained them.
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