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Newsjock

(11,733 posts)
Fri Mar 27, 2015, 12:52 AM Mar 2015

S.F. jail inmates forced to fight, public defender says

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco sheriff’s deputies arranged and gambled on battles between County Jail inmates, forcing one to train for the fights and telling them to lie if they needed medical attention, the city’s public defender said Thursday.

Since the beginning of March, at least four deputies at County Jail No. 4 at 850 Bryant St. threatened inmates with violence or withheld food if they did not fight each other, gladiator-style, for the entertainment of the deputies, Public Defender Jeff Adachi said.

Adachi said the ringleader in these fights was Deputy Scott Neu, who was accused in 2006 of forcing inmates to perform sexual acts on him. That case was settled out of court.

“I don’t know why he does it, but I just feel like he gets a kick out of it because I just see the look on his face,” said Ricardo Palikiko Garcia, one of the inmates who said he was forced to fight. “It looks like it brings him joy by doing this, while we’re suffering by what he’s doing.”

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/S-F-jail-inmates-forced-to-fight-Adachi-says-6161221.php

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S.F. jail inmates forced to fight, public defender says (Original Post) Newsjock Mar 2015 OP
Wait alcibiades_mystery Mar 2015 #1
"That case was settled out of court." Huh?? . . . Journeyman Mar 2015 #2
Life imitating art? DeSwiss Mar 2015 #3
Sounds like a movie, In Hell Trillo Mar 2015 #4
Or setting the foundations for this one ... Nihil Mar 2015 #5
 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
1. Wait
Fri Mar 27, 2015, 12:59 AM
Mar 2015

"Adachi said the ringleader in these fights was Deputy Scott Neu, who was accused in 2006 of forcing inmates to perform sexual acts on him."

Um, what?

Journeyman

(15,031 posts)
2. "That case was settled out of court." Huh?? . . .
Fri Mar 27, 2015, 01:06 AM
Mar 2015

Whatever the "out of court" settlement was, why didn't it include the removal of Deputy Neu from the sheriff's department?

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
3. Life imitating art?
Fri Mar 27, 2015, 01:41 AM
Mar 2015


- In this story, the antagonist and the protagonist both die in the end. Together.


With Antonio Vivaldi's, ''Gloria'' in D Major-Et in Terra Pax playing as the background music......

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