Month: September 2017

JDI Statement on the Arrest of a Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputy for Rape

Los Angeles, September 14, 2017 — JDI is appalled by the report that two Los Angeles County jail inmates were raped by a sheriff’s deputy. The deputy, who is alleged to have committed the assaults at the Century Regional Detention Facility, was arrested yesterday. “What happened at the jail represents a profound failure of the Los Angeles

Statement on Minnesota Legislator’s Prisoner Rape Tweet

Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., September 12, 2017 — JDI condemns a recent tweet by Minnesota state legislator Pat Garofalo calling for protestors to be sexually assaulted behind bars. Posted Sunday night, the Republican legislator expressed his wish that members of antifa who clashed with police in Portland, Oregon, should be detained and given “alone time

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