SF News Drug Smugglers Sneaking Synthetic Marijuana Into Jails By Soaking It Into Fake Legal Papers Santa Rita Jail and other prisons across the state are on high alert that a potent synthetic cannabis substitute is being smuggled into their jails, soaked into completely fake legal documents that the prisoners can just shred up and smoke.
SF News Pamela Price Charges Nine Deputies, Two Jail Staffers for 2021 Santa Rita Jail Death Maurice Monk was found dead in his Santa Rita Jail cell after staff had not checked on him in at least three days, and in her final weeks in office, Alameda County DA Pamela Price is charging nearly a dozen deputies and staffers with negligence in his death.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Activists May Have Quashed Santa Rita Jail Expansion Plan Community opposition seems to have stalled or killed a plan to build a new mental-health facility at Santa Rita Jail; the first victim has been identified in a deadly I-680 crash; and a court says Donald Trump can't be on the primary ballot in Colorado.
SF News Mentally Ill Man Jailed For Illegally Squatting Is Slain In Santa Rita Jail, Allegedly Killed By Cellmate Just three days after being admitted to Santa Rita Jail, an El Cerrito man suffering from schizophrenia was killed allegedly by his cellmate, in what’s shaping up to be another lawsuit against the often-troubled correctional facility.
SF News Alameda County DA’s New Accountability Unit Files Criminal Charges Against Three Law Enforcement Officers The separate charges range from falsifying records in relation with a suicide at Santa Rita Jail to oral copulation with a minor.
SF News Boyfriend and Murder Suspect of Oakland Dentist Lili Xu Kills Himself in Jail An August fatal shooting shooting of beloved Oakland dentist Lili Xu initially spurred hate-crime speculation, but it turned out to be a suspected murder-for-hire by her boyfriend, and now that boyfriend has taken his own life in jail.
SF News Man Jailed for Not Wearing a Mask Dies in Custody, Family Sues Alameda County Another abuse-of-an-incarcerated-person scandal at the beleaguered Santa Rita jail brings a new lawsuit against Alameda County, after they jailed a man for not wearing a mask on AC Transit, then allegedly denied him his medication and he died behind bars.
SF News Former Alameda Deputies Sentenced in Ghoulish Inmate Abuse Scandal A pair of Alameda County deputy guards who orchestrated cruel feces-throwing behavior at Santa Rita jail will find themselves on the other side of the bars, getting sentenced to four years in state prison.
SF News East Bay Law Enforcement Promotes '#ZeroBailFail' On Twitter; Federal Courts May Step In to Hold Suspects In Jail The Alameda County Sheriff's Office released four side-by-side booking photos of one suspect they've had to arrest four times since late March on suspicion of a variety of charges, promoting the hashtag #ZeroBailFail.
SF News Santa Rita Jail in East Bay Releases 300 Inmates to Protect Against Virus Spread These are extraordinary times, and calls are going out nationwide to release low-level offenders from jails so that they are not unnecessarily exposed to the coronavirus.
SF News BART Settles Case For $1.35M Involving Former Model Whose Face Got Slammed To Ground By Cops A very drunken St. Patrick's Day in 2014 turned into a incident of excessive force at the hands of BART police according to a lawsuit that was just settled by BART earlier this
SF News Model Whose Face Was Slammed To The Ground During Arrest Now Suing BART, Oakland Police An extra-drunken St. Patrick's Day led to one San Francisco woman getting slammed to the ground by BART police, her face severely bloodied, four bones in her face broken, and two teeth damaged.
SF News 'Mutilation And Mayhem' In Oakland After Man Allegedly Kills Roommate With Pick-Axe Last Friday was quite a night for professional recycler Jeff Girard. According to Oakland police, he began his evening with “a lot of alcoholic beverages," and ended it trying—and failing—to dismember
