investigations, studies, and sworn testimony by former sheriff’s department employees have described a culture of violence and criminal behavior inflicted on the public by deputy gangs.
“I know a lot of mothers and a lot of fathers who wanted something like this motion whose loved ones died by deputy gangs, but have passed and didn’t get to see something like this take place,” said Helen Jones, whose son John Horton III died in custody inside Men’s Central Jail in 2009…