SAN FRANCISCO
(AP) -- Sheriff's deputies arranged and gambled on fights between San
Francisco jail inmates and told them to lie if they needed medical
attention, an official said.
Public defender
Jeff Adachi, an elected official, said that over the past few weeks at
least four deputies at San Francisco County Jail threatened inmates with
violence or withheld food if they did not fight, the San Francisco
Chronicle reported ( http://bit.ly/1xF2S9I ) Thursday.
Adachi
said the ringleader in the 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.
Harry Stern, an
attorney for the San Francisco Deputy Sheriff's Association, the union
representing deputies, told The Associated Press on Friday in an email
that there "wasn't a ring to be the leader of."
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