SF News SF Sheriff Paul Miyamoto Speaks Out on Recent Jail Lockdowns, Staffing Shortages After the recent SF County Jail lockdowns and complaints of severe staffing shortages, SF Sheriff Paul Miyamoto opens up about his office’s challenges, while the deputies’ union is demanding he calls in the National Guard.
SF News Two SF County Jails on Lockdown Amidst Reported Rash of Attacks on Deputies After seven staff members were reportedly attacked by inmates at SF County Jail in just a two-week span, two of the jail’s facilities have been placed on lockdown, with the incarcerated restricted to their cells and visits canceled for the time being.
SF News SF’s Ankle Monitor System Not Working, As People Still Commit Crimes, or Just Tear Them Right Off GPS ankle monitors seem like a humane alternative to jail. But they may be too humane, as suspects are still committing crimes in San Francisco while wearing them, or simply cutting them off and throwing them in the trash.
SF News Someone Posed as an ICE Agent and Tried to Visit Paul Pelosi Attacker In County Jail Three days after David DePape's arrest, someone apparently posing as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent tried to get in to see him in SF County Jail, wielding little more than a bogus business card.
SF News San Francisco to Pay $504K to One-Legged Inmate Forced to Hop to Cell A federal jury has just awarded $504,000 to an inmate at the San Francisco County Jail who filed an excessive force lawsuit in 2018 over his mistreatment at the jail.
SF News Dilapidated County Jail Building to Close September 5, Months Ahead of Schedule The raw sewage, COVID-19 hotbed known as San Francisco County Jail No. 4 will close permanently on Labor Day weekend, ending an injustice at the Hall of Justice.
SF News SF's Largest Mental Health Facility? It's The County Jail, Claims Report "Most of the patients I see as a psychiatry resident at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital are very ill," Alison Hwong, a psychiatrist in her residency at UCSF, writes in an op-ed
SF News Day Around The Bay: County Jail Can't Figure Out Trans Inmate Issue The SF County Jail can’t figure out how to house trans inmates. [SF Weekly] Meanwhile, as we learned earlier, California's most famous trans prison inmate, now released, now lives in SF, and
SF News Inmates Now Suing Sheriff's Deputies Who Allegedly Forced Them To Brawl Behind Bars In addition to criminal charges brought against them earlier this month by District Attorney George Gascón, San Francisco Sheriff's deputies who allegedly led forced Fight Club-like matches between inmates, engaging in patterns of
Arts & Entertainment Someone Recorded a Live Album At SF County Jail SF County Jail No. 2 Pod E serves as the music venue for a new live album by jazz and soul artist Naima Shalhoub, and it's titled Live in San Francisco County Jail.
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew: Back From Jail, But For How Long? Though disgraced former San Francisco supervisor Ed Jew is home from federal prison (where he reportedly taught yoga; the fun with this guy never ends), he's supposed to head back to county jail.
SF News This Mother's Day, Send Your Mom To Jail The San Francisco County Sheriff's Department would like you, upstanding San Francisco Citizen, to grab your mother and come on down to the County Jail this Mother's Day. Why? For a pop-up art
