From The Denver Post:  Inmates in the Adams County jail call them the “slam crew:” jailers with short fuses, vulgar vocabularies and a predilection for unwarranted violence, according to one lawsuit.

In Arapahoe County, a 350-pound deputy controlled an unruly inmate by shoving the inmate’s head toward his knees while he was strapped in a restraint chair, a lawsuit says. The inmate died of positional asphyxiation. The county later paid $65,000to the inmate’s widow.

In Boulder County, a deputy can be seen on video grabbing Daniel Hyrnewycz, a homeless man, by the back of the neck and swinging him into an area outside of camera view. The county paid a $24,000 settlement to the inmate.

In each case, no deputy was disciplined in any way.

Excessive-force complaints have prompted millions of dollars in settlements or judgments in Denver, but jail deputies in surrounding counties also have been at the center of several cases that left inmates injured or dead, according to a Denver Post review of records.

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