One of the inmates was taken to a hospital, according to the sheriff’s department, after an incident at the jail where stabbings, assaults and fights are an ongoing pattern. A civil rights investigation is now underway.
Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesThe Department of Justice on Tuesday announced a civil rights investigation into the Trenton Police Department and the City of Trenton, reviewing “serious and credible” complaints of excessive force and unlawful searches. The “pattern-or-practice” investigation will examine whether the police department committed systemic violations, including using force in their stops, searches, and arrests. Feds say the investigation will also look at the dep
Lawsuits allege that the Baton Rouge Police Department's now shuttered Street Crimes Unit abused drug suspects in a narcotics processing facility known as the "Brave Cave."