Shawne Fletcher, L.A. County Jail Inmate, Sues Sheriff Lee Baca
for Another Brutal Beating  shawne fletcher.jpg Courtesy of Dawn
Fletcher Shawn, after the beating. Allegations of abuse have
been raining down on the L.A. County Sheriff's Department since
springtime. LA Weekly writer Chris Vogel's "Men's County Jail
Visitor Viciously Beaten by Guards" opened the floodgates for
more testimonies, and lawsuits, from inmates who say they were
subjected to a terrifying culture of violence that deputies have
created within the prisons. (As if being in prison wasn't bad
enough.)  Though a recent high-profile ACLU report aired
hundreds of shocking victim testimonies, and triggered a larger
FBI investigation, inmates have been struggling to unveil the
sick reality of the department, under the non-leadership of
Sheriff Lee Baca, for years. Take the case of Shawne Fletcher,
currently in U.S. District Court:  Fletcher filed a lawsuit in
2008 claiming that on June 18, 2006, he was grope-searched and
beaten senseless by a pa