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The temporary restraining order addresses the ACLU's allegations that mentally ill inmates were chained to chairs for days and left to sleep on a concrete floor.
The mother of an inmate who died in 2021 while in custody is suing Los Angeles County and Sheriff Alex Villanueva, alleging the 27-year-old man succumbed to a beating rather than drugs as asserted by deputies.
Upon his death, the inmate had multiple abrasions, bruises, contusions, loss of teeth, a broken or fractured arm and other marks "clearly indicating Jalani Lovett was beaten and tortured,'' the suit states.
L.A. County jail inmates are left to defecate in garbage cans and sleep chained to chairs or benches, ACLU alleges in demand for an emergency court order