has learned a class action lawsuit was filed today against a local prison. it involves sexual abuse allegations that may involve 75 prisoners. at the center of the allegations---the pris warden in los lunas. investigative reporter jeremy jojola has been working the story all day.... and is live at 6 with the disturbing details. jeremy. it's a graphic lawsuit--with words we can't say on tv. it says dozens of prisoners were forced to strip naked and sit in sexual positio while being video taped. behind the barbed wire of the los lunas prison, a disturbing story involving dozens of naked prisoners is laid minute thumbnail 06:00 pm out in graphic detail by this class action lawsuit filed this morning. it accuses warden anthony romero and other officers of forcing dozens of prisoners to strip to their underwear at gun point---and sit a lined-position where their genitals touched eachother's backsides. they sat like that for hours, the lawsuit says, forcing one prisoner to urinate on another. "but perhaps the most shocking part of it all...is the people who did it. its not just guards...it's the warden of the jail, the warden of the prison himself." attorney matthew coyte says he hopes the lawsuit will stop the abuse, he says happened several times to dozens of prisoners. "there were so many of them, and it happened on numerous occasions. the information that i have...there are going to be lots and lots of prisoners who are going to say that they were put in a line and subjected to this sexual humiliation." "allegations of abuse by prisoners are quite common in the prison system...so we had to minute thumbnail 06:01 pm ask why should these claims be believed.
