LA County beating prisoners

It has been a while since I was able to write you, I was transferred to LA County jail to go to court. I wasn't able to take any of my property with me, and I don't know your address by heart, but now I'm back.

I went to court only to get ten years added, they didn't take any time off, so now I have 75 years to life. The pigs in LA County are beating prisoners some place in that county all day every day. It's a war zone down there, they put the cuffs on you and take you some place and beat you. All of them, even the captain will beat you. They put gangs in units with other gangs that these young guys call their enemy, and if they jump you the pigs will put you right back in there. The prisoners don't know that the real enemy is the pigs. I have old gang stuff all over my body so when they see that they get upset. Someone got stabbed and the pigs put it on me, I even been jumped by the pigs a few times.

- a California prisoner, December 2004