Videos smuggled out of L.A. jails reveal violence, neglect. Inmate hid USB "inside" himself for months before releasing

[curr3n_c1000]

The origin story of the thumb drive — as told by the former inmate who came forward to The Times — is just as shocking as the videos on it.

By his account, it was more than a year ago that an inmate worker spotted the drive in the trash at Men’s Central Jail. With no way to know what it contained, the worker plucked it out of the garbage and began trying to sell it to other inmates.

The man who was interested offered him $50 of heroin, thinking the drive might contain movies that he and the other men could watch.

But once the men on his unit slipped it into the back of a TV, they realized that was not the case. They quickly took it out of the TV, and the man instead hung onto it, sometimes hiding it inside his body for weeks.

Fights, beatings and a birth: Videos smuggled out of L.A. jails reveal violence, neglect

The brutal 20-minute clip is one of a few dozen graphic videos saved to a thumb drive picked out of the trash by one inmate, and later secreted out of the jail by another.

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[mandrill]

Curry, I hate to tell you, but this is every jail and detention centre in north america, incl Ontario.

And you just learned about the time-honoured art of "hooping".

 

[Sonic Temple]

Agree with @mandrill - even worse in other countries at times.

 

[curr3n_c1000]

There's a difference between knowing it happens and having evidence it happens.

The real story to me here is the inmate hid this up his ass for several months.