{"id":24143,"date":"2011-09-21T10:35:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T17:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=24143"},"modified":"2011-09-22T18:04:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T01:04:21","slug":"matt-fleischer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/09\/21\/matt-fleischer\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Fleischer on Horrific Abuse at LA Men&#8217;s Central Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=100% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/matt_fleischer.JPG\" \/>According to an investigative report by Matthew Fleischer, inmates at the LA Men\u2019s Central Jail are subject to horrific abuses by, or under the watch of, the Sheriff\u2019s deputies who work there. Known as the CJ, it is the largest jail in the county holding over 4300 men a day. Severe beatings and sexual humiliation are commonplace, say inmates and whistle blowers. Prisoners have been left in unsupervised situations where other inmates savagely beat and raped them. Deputies are also known to form clubs that witnesses say function more like gangs. Members intimidate their fellow officers, abuse inmates, sport matching tattoos, and adhere to a strict code of silence. Reforms, Fleischer reports, are slow in coming due to push-back within the ranks and disinterest among top administrators.<\/p>\n<p>Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar spoke with Matt Fleischer on September 21, 2011. <\/p>\n<p>Watch the interview here: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"477\" height=\"285\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W5jYZS0mczI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read the first part of Fleischer&#8217;s report at <a href=\"http:\/\/witnessla.com\">witnessla.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Martina Steiner recorded this interview. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/09\/21\/matt-fleischer\/ ?\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=100% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/matt_fleischer.JPG\" \/><\/a>According to an investigative report by Matthew Fleischer, inmates at the LA Men\u2019s Central Jail are subject to horrific abuses by, or under the watch of, the Sheriff\u2019s deputies who work there. Known as the CJ, it is the largest jail in the county holding over 4300 men a day. Severe beatings and sexual humiliation are commonplace, say inmates and whistle blowers. Prisoners have been left in unsupervised situations where other inmates savagely beat and raped them. Deputies are also known to form clubs that witnesses say function more like gangs. Members intimidate their fellow officers, abuse inmates, sport matching tattoos, and adhere to a strict code of silence. Reforms, Fleischer reports, are slow in coming due to push-back within the ranks and disinterest among top administrators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}