8:51 am - Thursday May 17, 2012

Group: Heat-beam device use in jail is `torture’

A civil rights group is speaking out against the Los Angeles County sheriff’s plans to install a high-tech device that shoots a heat beam at unruly jail inmates.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California sent a letter Thursday to Sheriff Lee Baca, urging him not to install the mechanism because of safety concerns.

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