Deputy accused in Alameda County jail abuse scandal choked an inmate until he fell unconscious, prosecutors say
(LA Times Europe)

For months, the Alameda County sheriff´s deputies allowed a high-security inmate to leave his cell at the Santa Rita Jail without handcuffs or waist restraints. They´d give him access to other inmates in one-person cells, prosecutors said, by unlocking the doors or the small slots through which...