A Southern California sheriff’s department is investigating a report that deputies used a Taser stun gun on a cat at a jail, a department spokesman said Tuesday. A cat’s corpse was later found on the jail grounds in Orange, Calif.
The investigation comes a week after the release of grand jury transcripts that showed that deputies at the jail allowed inmates to discipline one another while guards watched TV, played video games and exchanged text messages in a glass-walled guard station.
Meanwhile, the Orange County district attorney’s office is investigating the April 1 death of inmate Jason Jesus Gomez, 35, who lost consciousness after deputies shocked him with an electric stun weapon during an altercation.
Evidence of deputies allowing inmate “shot-callers” to enforce the rules surfaced during a lengthy district attorney investigation into the 2006 death of inmate John Chamberlain.
