Officials investigate Santa Rita jail deathRoman Gokhman
- 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...
DUBLIN, Calif.-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 housing, which would...
MORE:Death rate at Santa Rita exceeds nation's largest jail system as critics call for reform Sgt. Ray Kelly, a spokesman for the jail, referred all questions regarding the death to the public records department. Information was not immediately provided regarding circumstances of the suicide. Reye...
- 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...
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 ...
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