Officials investigate Santa Rita jail deathRoman Gokhman
Seven active Alameda County sheriff's deputiescharged in the death of Santa Rita Jail inmate Maurice Monkhave been placed on administrative leave, according to Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez. The seven deputies, along with two former deputies and two civilian jail employees,wer...
article Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, Calif. (KTVU FOX 2) Dublin, Calif. - Fifty-six more people on Monday were ordered released from the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin in an effort to lower the risk that the coronavirus will spread through the jail, Alameda County court officials said....
- A man died at Santa Rita Jail last week – the second person to die there in less than two weeks. The Alameda County Sheriff's Office identified the man as Charles Johnson, 45, who they said died on Saturday after suffering a medical emergency at the jail the day before about 11:20...
Marlon Reyes has died by suicide at Santa Rita Jail while he was in the quarantine intake housing unit, which is now standard protocol upon booking all new inmates to prevent COVID. But it does raise questions about out-of-cell time.
The family of a schizophrenic man who was suffocated to death at Santa Rita Jail filed a wrongful death suit Wednesday in U.S. District Court, alleging that the sheriff's office misclassified him and his cellmate and did not place him into mental health
- Alameda County is pushing back on a scathing U.S. Department of Justice report that found the mental health care and overuse of isolation at Santa Rita Jail are "unconstitutional."In court filings presented Friday before U.S. District Court Magistrate Nathaneal Cousins, lawyers...
Ray Kelly said," Santa Rita Jail has done an outstanding job in managing the pandemic under very difficult circumstances. The health and safety of those in custody remains our utmost priority. We continue to work with our justice partners to keep the population at a safe level and to make ...
However, Kara Janssen, whose law firm sued Alameda County and who would be part of the team overseeing the jail if the consent decree is signed, said that like it or not, Santa Rita Jail already is the county's largest de facto psychiatric institute. And since it is, she said, her ...
No other signs of disease emerge at Santa Rita jailChris Metinko, NEDIANEWS STAFF