A 15th corrections officer has been indicted in connection with a January 2021 incident at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women where inmates were allegedly forcibly removed from cells ...

In such prisons, officers know cell extractions are rarely needed; in some prisons, however, the institutional culture permits cell extractions simply to show inmates “who’s in charge” or to retaliate ...

Another man died after a similar extraction from the same Riverside County jail in 2017. In 2018, a detainee died after a cell extraction in a San Diego County jail. In 2015, a 37-year-old woman died ...

Editor's note: Christopher Damien is reporting about law enforcement in Southern California’s inland and desert communities for The New York Times and The Desert Sun as part of The Times’s Local ...