By Christina Villacorte
Los Angeles Daily News
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County taxpayers are on the hook for at least $740,000 in damages after a federal jury Thursday found dozens of Sheriff’s Department supervisors and deputies “engaged in malicious and sadistic conduct” against inmates at Men’s Central Jail in 2008.
During the five-week trial, jurors watched videos of deputies removing inmates from cells forcibly, resulting in skull fractures, broken limbs and other serious injuries.
They awarded five of those inmates a combined total of $740,000 in general damages. On Tuesday, they will decide punitive damages.
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