Baca disputes jail abuse claims

Faced with allegations of rampant abuse in Los Angeles County jails, Sheriff Lee Baca defied calls to resign Wednesday and rejected an ACLU assertion that gangs of deputies are systematically brutalizing inmates. CJ Lin and Christina Vlllacorte in the Daily News.

Baca held a news conference following the release of a scathing report by the American Civil Liberties Union that he and his top commanders are willfully indifferent to claims that deputies routinely viciously assault inmates.

"That is a very false allegation," Baca said. "There are no gangs in the Sheriff's Department working custody."