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And he suggested the department could reduce its jail staffing needs by releasing some people if jailers are not able to provide a constitutionally adequate level of care.

While concerns about staff-incited violence are commonplace among juvenile defense attorneys, Gunsberg said that officers are not punished because youths are rarely willing to speak out against their jailers.

Three other inmates then joined in, punching the jailer and stomping his head until he fell unconscious.

But a report filed by the Sheriff’s Department’s Internal Criminal Investigations Bureau portrayed a squad that accepted gang leaders wielded more authority over inmates than their jailers.

But his family says he's an innocent man who has been tortured by his jailers, and there are growing calls for the 38-year-old to be released and allowed to return home after the "seven-year nightmare".