Government
Jun. 16, 2001
Former Inmate Files Civil Rights Lawsuit
SANTA ANA - A former Orange County jail inmate has filed a federal civil rights suit accusing sheriff's deputies of failing to step in to prevent a jailhouse beating and then denying victims medical care.
Thomas Rafferty, of Whittier, 40, alleges in a complaint filed Wednesday that three inmates, followed by another five inmates, beat him as sheriff's deputies looked on. The fig...