LA jail guards routinely punch incarcerated people in the head, monitors find

Los Angeles sheriff's department accused of hours-long group strip-search as court report adds to string of scandals

Los Angeles jail guards have frequently punched incarcerated people in the head and subjected them to a humiliating" group strip-search where they were forced to wait undressed for hours, according to a new report from court-appointed monitors documenting a range of abuses.

The Los Angeles sheriff's department (LASD), which oversees the largest local jail system in the country, appears to be routinely violating use-of-force policies, with supervisors failing to hold guards accountable and declining to provide information to the monitors tasked with reviewing the treatment of incarcerated people.