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Hospital staff regularly leave him unattended, and the veteran falls five times over two weeks, injuring his head, finger, ribs and left knee. 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He died nine days later at age 84.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had asked them not to leave him alone, and then they left him in the bathroom,” she said. “We all get upset when these things happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written response to questions, agency spokeswoman Victoria Dillon said that while “any adverse incident for a veteran within our care is one too many,” the wrongful deaths identified by CIR represented a small fraction of the more than 6 million veterans who seek care from the agency every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency, Dillon said, is “committed to continuous improvement.” When a death occurs, “we conduct a thorough review to understand what happened, prevent similar incidents in the future, and share lessons learned across the system,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelations come as the department faces intense scrutiny from members of Congress over the number of preventable deaths at VA facilities. 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Even if they succeed, families can win only actual and not punitive damages from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, lawyers are reluctant to take cases, and many families never file – or see a dime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The VA fights every case tooth and nail, and so cases drag on for years,” said Cristobal Bonifaz, a Massachusetts attorney who in 2009 won a $350,000 settlement for the parents of Marine Lance Cpl. Jeffrey Lucey. Lucey was 23 when he hanged himself with a garden hose in his parents’ basement after being turned away from psychiatric care at the VA in Northampton, Mass. The payout came five years after his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among Bonifaz’s current clients is Tracy Eiswert, who had moved into her car with her two young children after her husband, 31-year-old Iraq War veteran Scott Eiswert, shot himself in the head in 2008. The Nashville, Tenn., VA had denied his disability claim for post-traumatic stress disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months after his death, the VA reversed itself, saying it was “clearly and unmistakably in error” for failing to grant Scott Eiswert’s disability claim, and the agency began sending Tracy Eiswert survivor benefits checks of $1,195 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the reversal, Tracy Eiswert decided to press ahead with a wrongful death lawsuit against the VA, in part because of the toll her husband’s suicide took on their children. “We’re still living with it today,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VA declined to comment on Scott Eiswert’s death. 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The Nashville, Tenn., VA had denied his disability claim for post-traumatic stress disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months after his death, the VA reversed itself, saying it was “clearly and unmistakably in error” for failing to grant Scott Eiswert’s disability claim, and the agency began sending Tracy Eiswert survivor benefits checks of $1,195 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the reversal, Tracy Eiswert decided to press ahead with a wrongful death lawsuit against the VA, in part because of the toll her husband’s suicide took on their children. “We’re still living with it today,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VA declined to comment on Scott Eiswert’s death. In court, the VA has defended itself on a legal technicality, arguing that Tennessee law supersedes federal law in the case and that the Eiswert family failed to follow procedures prescribed in the state statute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filed in 2010, the case is still pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 12 p.m.\u003c/strong> Attorney Paul DeMeester says he no longer represents suspended state Sen. Leland Yee against federal charges filed in a wide-ranging corruption case that has rocked California's Democratic political establishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeMeester says Yee's new attorney is \u003ca href=\"http://www.mpbf.com/attorneys/lassart_james.php\" target=\"_blank\">James Lassart\u003c/a>. He said the change was made by Yee yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeMeester called Yee a \"longtime friend\" and said he would be in \"good hands\" with his new lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lassart's \u003ca href=\"http://www.mpbf.com/attorneys/lassart_james.php\" target=\"_blank\">web page\u003c/a> at the law firm of Murphy Pearson Bradley & Feeney says he is a former assistant U.S. attorney and former coordinator of the northwest region of the federal \u003ca href=\"http://www.justice.gov/criminal/taskforces/ocdetf.html\" target=\"_blank\">Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force\u003c/a>. A 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.mpbf.com/news/articles/Lassart%20Driscoll%20Press%20Release.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">press release\u003c/a> announcing his hiring at Murphy Pearson said his job in the U.S. attorney's office included prosecuting organized crime cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, DeMeester, acting as Yee's attorney, said the Democrat intends to plead not guilty. Yee is expected to face a formal grand jury indictment next week. After a wide-ranging investigation, the FBI claims it has Yee on tape promising to coordinate an arms deal and trade political favors in exchange for cash. 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Leland Yee’s Sacramento office Wednesday.\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A California Highway Patrol officer and other officials stand outside Sen. Leland Yee’s Sacramento office March 26. (Scott Detrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Assistant U.S. Attorney William Frentzen called Jackson a one-man crime wave and said he shouldn't be released from custody. He laid out the crimes that Jackson allegedly conspired to commit with undercover agents, including drug and gun trafficking and murder-for-hire. And Frentzen said he has it all on tape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson's appointed attorney, James Brosnahan, shot back that Jackson has no criminal record, no history of violence, and that the alleged crimes are FBI creations. The veteran defense attorney repeated that outside the courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no murder, there is no body, there is no corpse. It was in the mind of an FBI agent -- several of them,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brosnahan, a legendary legal lion, has more than 50 years of criminal and civil experience. As part of the independent prosecutor’s office in the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair\">Iran-Contra case\u003c/a>, he was the lead federal prosecutor of former U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. His best-known client was \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_Lindh\">John Walker Lindh\u003c/a>, the “American Taliban” from Marin accused of conducting terrorism against the United States when he was captured with the Taliban in Afghanistan shortly after 9/11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson remains in custody until at least Thursday, when the magistrate will again take up issues surrounding his bail. Brosnahan said he thought Jackson could cobble together $100,000 by using his mother's house in Texas and another relative's house in Tennessee as collateral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who is Keith Jackson?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson began his political career at 32, winning election to the San Francisco Board of Education on a platform of \"family values.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He had not really been involved in the school district at all before his election,\" said Jill Wynns, also elected to the board in 1994. She said Jackson, a political novice, wasn't up to the task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So when he got elected people were surprised. He came to the board not very well prepared.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Jackson resigned from the board presidency three years later, briefly taking a job with the city's recycling department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He resurfaced in 2008, when developer \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Keith-Jackson-emerges-as-major-figure-in-Calif-5368557.php\" target=\"_blank\">Lennar hired him\u003c/a> to champion the Hunters Point shipyard project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Ross, a San Francisco-based consultant, said that Jackson had credibility as an organizer in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of the consultants or the people that you might reach out to and hire, especially in the Western Addition on the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood, Keith would be really high on that list.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross said that in 2010 Jackson abruptly left the political scene. 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It’s just frustrating. It reflects negatively not just on him but the group he represents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another longtime Sunset resident, 21-year-old Matthew Louie, said it’s downright shameful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To have Leland Yee represent the Chinese in San Francisco, and have these accusations brought against him of illegal weapons dealing, wire fraud, things of that nature, just looks poorly in front of us, as he represents the Chinese people in Chinatown and in San Francisco,” Louie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet there are those in the community who are feeling more protective, as if maybe Yee didn’t deserve this fate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people may think there’s something behind it, (like) is it a conspiracy,” Chen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The neighborhood is relatively sleepy today, versus a few decades ago when gang activity was a headline staple.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Chinatown businessman Peter Kwan is a Yee supporter. He thinks Yee’s downfall was getting mixed up with the likes of Raymond Chow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Regarding this whatever you call it, corruption, whatever, it could be very complicated,” Kwan said. “And I believe in some way, he might have been, I couldn’t say framed, but it’s something like a setup.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, some in the community worry that people might start to think that triads, drugs and guns are just part of the fabric of Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walking around Chinatown, you don’t get the sense that there’s an underground crime syndicate there. What you get is tourists, dim sum places and tchotchke shops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neighborhood is relatively sleepy today, versus a few decades ago when gang activity was a headline staple. This is partly why people were so shocked by Yee’s arrest -- and even Chow’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coverage of their arrests certainly made Chinatown seem to have a sleazy underbelly. 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According to campaign money tracker MapLight, since 2002 Brosnahan has given nearly $30,000 in campaign contributions to candidates for federal office, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how did \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/130537/keith-jackson-among-laland-yees-top-political-contributors/\">Keith Jackson\u003c/a>, a relatively small-time political consultant and fundraiser, end up with a top-notch legal defender? Was it just dumb luck or something else? It depends on whom you ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In cases with multiple defendants such as this one, the office of the federal public defender represents one client, while the other defendants lacking counsel are assigned defense attorneys from a panel of lawyers who volunteer to do the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the northern district office in San Francisco, those panel assignments are overseen by panel administrator Ruben P. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0107.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-130926\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0107-640x439.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco motorcycle police ride in front of about 500 people marching Saturday from San Francisco's Mission District to Bernal Heights Park, where 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto was shot and killed by police officers a week before. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"439\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco motorcycle police ride in front of about 500 people marching Saturday from San Francisco's Mission District to Bernal Heights Park, where 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto was shot and killed by police officers a week before. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Family and friends of a 28-year-old San Francisco man shot and killed by police are questioning the official story of the shooting that reverberates with multiple controversies raging in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/sfpd-fatal-shooting-bernal-heights&sa=U&ei=Eu84U5bLAvKO2gX_7IDgDA&ved=0CAYQFjAA&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNFmwnZkJVgMqB0O7YHSwyuSpLyxfA\" target=\"_blank\">Police Chief Greg Suhr said\u003c/a> Alejandro Nieto pointed a Taser stun gun at officers responding to reports of a man with a gun in Bernal Heights Park as the sun was setting on March 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends say Nieto carried the Taser for his job as a nightclub security guard, and he stopped at his neighborhood park to eat a burrito on his way to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-eviction activists say the shooting spotlights a culture clash in the Mission and other San Francisco neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a real wake-up call the other day to realize that evictions and gentrification don’t just mean losing your home but really losing your life as well,\" said Erin McElroy with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.antievictionmappingproject.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Anti-Eviction Mapping Project\u003c/a>. She addressed about 500 people filling the streets of the Mission District Saturday before the crowd marched to Bernal Heights Park, where police shot Nieto. \"It’s really sad that we have to be here because we are losing people from this community to gun violence by the police. We are losing people due to evictions, and we are being replaced by people who are scared of us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130924\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0067.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130924 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0067-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine Marroquin said evictions and changing demographics in San Francisco's Mission district are related to the fatal police shooting of Alejandro Nieto.\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine Marroquin said evictions and changing demographics in San Francisco's Mission district are related to the fatal police shooting of Alejandro Nieto. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Catherine Marroquin lifted a sign that said \"Gentrification = Police Brutality,\" as she marched through drizzling rain toward the Bernal Heights panoramic view of San Francisco's skyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Police have much more of a presence in the neighborhood now,\" she said, adding the Mission district youth she works with, some City College students, look just like Nieto. \"They're scared for their lives,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erick Arguella represents Mission District business owners with the merchants association \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcalle24sf.org%2F&ei=du84U7qOIqecyQG_6IDoCw&usg=AFQjCNELzPzMOkxnR-7ogl5Q26I_573OYA&sig2=J6aFEze7FMn1U_lQE0eWkg&bvm=bv.63808443,d.aWc\" target=\"_blank\">Calle 24 SF\u003c/a>. He said Latino ownership of storefronts along 24th Street had dropped to 69 of 130, the lowest ratio in 15 years. Longtime local shops are being pressured by speculators looking to buy, Arguella said, and if they refuse, they get a lot more attention from authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve seen realtors, we’ve seen speculators, we’ve seen individual folks hitting these businesses relentlessly for the last two years,\" he said. \"We’ve seen a pattern of Department of Public Health showing up, the Police Department showing up, different inspectors showing up in an attempt to force them to sell. A lot of times they would have to close if they find some infractions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130923\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0016.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130923 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0016-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Several dozen San Francisco police officers followed Saturday's march.\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several dozen San Francisco police officers followed Saturday's march. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The march was flanked by several dozen police officers with riot gear, but there were no confrontations between protesters and police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm glad they were here,\" said Nieto's friend, Ben Bac Sierra. He said police should hear the marchers' message: \"We’re at a new stage, we have a very positive momentum. We’re not trying to hurt anyone, we just want the truth. We want justice for Alex.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was well-known in the Mission and Bernal Heights, where he lived. He was active in the fight to keep \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/city-college-of-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">City College of San Francisco\u003c/a> accredited as he studied criminal justice there. He planned to become a probation officer and completed an internship with the city's juvenile probation department about a year ago, said his mentor and city probation officer, Carlos Gonzalez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Knowing that he knew a little bit about criminal justice, knowing that he was an intern with us, it just doesn’t make sense to me that he would be that dumb,\" Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was a Buddhist and volunteered with Mission District youth organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130927\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 307px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0295.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130927 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0295-640x421.jpg\" alt=\"3/29/2014 March for Alejandro Nieto Security 1\" width=\"307\" height=\"202\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis Del Villar mourned the death of his co-worker, Alejandro Nieto, on Saturday, March 29. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fellow security guards at El Toro nightclub attended the march Saturday and paid respects to Nieto's father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was a real nice guy,\" Luis Del Villar said. \"The first time I met him, he gave me his hand and a hug.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nieto's life was reportedly not without conflict. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Man-killed-by-S-F-police-was-inspiration-but-5344159.php\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Chronicle reports\u003c/a> former friend Arthur Vega filed a restraining order against him after Nieto allegedly shocked him with a stun gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr described elements of a shooting that could point to a \"suicide-by-cop,\" although authorities haven't yet made an official determination on the shooting. Suhr told an angry crowd at a town hall meeting to discuss the shooting last week that Nieto was prohibited from owning a gun for \"mental health reasons.\" He said Nieto acting erratically, then drew a Taser when police confronted him in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They asked Nieto to show his hands, to which he responded, ‘You need to show your hands,’ and then he drew his firearm,” Suhr said, then corrected himself, “the weapon that he drew.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of Suhr's remarks on the shooting at a town hall meeting on March 25 are below. Some interruptions have been edited out:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nieto's friends don't buy it. Bac Sierra responded to the possibility of Nieto committing \"suicide-by-cop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Bac Sierra said gentrification played a role in the shooting of his friend, with new neighbors quick to call police and officers quick to shoot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\"But I don’t really say that with spite -- it’s just they had a different life,\" he said, adding that the diverse crowd that marched Saturday was \"beautiful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\"Alejandro would love unity,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130929\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 448px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_9890.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130929 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_9890-640x408.jpg\" alt=\"Mexica dancers Saturday's march for 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto, who was shot and killed by police officers a week before.\" width=\"448\" height=\"286\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aztec dancers at Saturday's march for 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto, who was shot and killed by police officers a week before. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Nieto's family, and his many supporters in the Mission and Bernal Heights neighborhoods, are mourning him this week. A public rosary is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday at Driscoll’s Valencia Street Serra Mortuary in the Mission. His funeral is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Saint Kevin Catholic Church in Bernal Heights. Supporters are taking donations for Nieto's family, with more information available on the \"Justice for Alex Nieto\" Facebook page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Meanwhile, police and San Francisco's Office of Citizens Complaints and Police Commission will review the shooting, part of which will likely happen Wednesday in a closed-session meeting. The commission will review the chief's decision to \"return or not return officers to duty following an officer-involved shooting.\" Suhr said involved officers were put on administrative leave after the shooting per police department protocol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\n\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Police have much more of a presence in the neighborhood now,\" she said, adding the Mission district youth she works with, some City College students, look just like Nieto. \"They're scared for their lives,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erick Arguella represents Mission District business owners with the merchants association \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcalle24sf.org%2F&ei=du84U7qOIqecyQG_6IDoCw&usg=AFQjCNELzPzMOkxnR-7ogl5Q26I_573OYA&sig2=J6aFEze7FMn1U_lQE0eWkg&bvm=bv.63808443,d.aWc\" target=\"_blank\">Calle 24 SF\u003c/a>. He said Latino ownership of storefronts along 24th Street had dropped to 69 of 130, the lowest ratio in 15 years. Longtime local shops are being pressured by speculators looking to buy, Arguella said, and if they refuse, they get a lot more attention from authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve seen realtors, we’ve seen speculators, we’ve seen individual folks hitting these businesses relentlessly for the last two years,\" he said. \"We’ve seen a pattern of Department of Public Health showing up, the Police Department showing up, different inspectors showing up in an attempt to force them to sell. A lot of times they would have to close if they find some infractions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130923\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0016.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130923 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0016-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Several dozen San Francisco police officers followed Saturday's march.\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several dozen San Francisco police officers followed Saturday's march. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The march was flanked by several dozen police officers with riot gear, but there were no confrontations between protesters and police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm glad they were here,\" said Nieto's friend, Ben Bac Sierra. He said police should hear the marchers' message: \"We’re at a new stage, we have a very positive momentum. We’re not trying to hurt anyone, we just want the truth. We want justice for Alex.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was well-known in the Mission and Bernal Heights, where he lived. He was active in the fight to keep \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/city-college-of-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">City College of San Francisco\u003c/a> accredited as he studied criminal justice there. He planned to become a probation officer and completed an internship with the city's juvenile probation department about a year ago, said his mentor and city probation officer, Carlos Gonzalez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Knowing that he knew a little bit about criminal justice, knowing that he was an intern with us, it just doesn’t make sense to me that he would be that dumb,\" Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was a Buddhist and volunteered with Mission District youth organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130927\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 307px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0295.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130927 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0295-640x421.jpg\" alt=\"3/29/2014 March for Alejandro Nieto Security 1\" width=\"307\" height=\"202\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis Del Villar mourned the death of his co-worker, Alejandro Nieto, on Saturday, March 29. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fellow security guards at El Toro nightclub attended the march Saturday and paid respects to Nieto's father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was a real nice guy,\" Luis Del Villar said. \"The first time I met him, he gave me his hand and a hug.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nieto's life was reportedly not without conflict. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Man-killed-by-S-F-police-was-inspiration-but-5344159.php\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Chronicle reports\u003c/a> former friend Arthur Vega filed a restraining order against him after Nieto allegedly shocked him with a stun gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr described elements of a shooting that could point to a \"suicide-by-cop,\" although authorities haven't yet made an official determination on the shooting. Suhr told an angry crowd at a town hall meeting to discuss the shooting last week that Nieto was prohibited from owning a gun for \"mental health reasons.\" He said Nieto acting erratically, then drew a Taser when police confronted him in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They asked Nieto to show his hands, to which he responded, ‘You need to show your hands,’ and then he drew his firearm,” Suhr said, then corrected himself, “the weapon that he drew.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of Suhr's remarks on the shooting at a town hall meeting on March 25 are below. Some interruptions have been edited out:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nieto's friends don't buy it. Bac Sierra responded to the possibility of Nieto committing \"suicide-by-cop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Bac Sierra said gentrification played a role in the shooting of his friend, with new neighbors quick to call police and officers quick to shoot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\"But I don’t really say that with spite -- it’s just they had a different life,\" he said, adding that the diverse crowd that marched Saturday was \"beautiful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\"Alejandro would love unity,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130929\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 448px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_9890.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130929 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_9890-640x408.jpg\" alt=\"Mexica dancers Saturday's march for 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto, who was shot and killed by police officers a week before.\" width=\"448\" height=\"286\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aztec dancers at Saturday's march for 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto, who was shot and killed by police officers a week before. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Nieto's family, and his many supporters in the Mission and Bernal Heights neighborhoods, are mourning him this week. A public rosary is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday at Driscoll’s Valencia Street Serra Mortuary in the Mission. His funeral is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Saint Kevin Catholic Church in Bernal Heights. Supporters are taking donations for Nieto's family, with more information available on the \"Justice for Alex Nieto\" Facebook page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Meanwhile, police and San Francisco's Office of Citizens Complaints and Police Commission will review the shooting, part of which will likely happen Wednesday in a closed-session meeting. The commission will review the chief's decision to \"return or not return officers to duty following an officer-involved shooting.\" Suhr said involved officers were put on administrative leave after the shooting per police department protocol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The final three weeks of Walter Roches' life last September were, like much of his previous decade, violent and chaotic, complicated by mental illness and repeated encounters with law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches, 32, had completed a state prison sentence for domestic violence. Afterward, he was placed in the Evans Lane Wellness and Recovery Center, a San Jose facility that, among other things, treats mentally ill parolees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 5, over Labor Day weekend, Roches was arrested and charged with battery after a \"physical and sexual altercation\" at Evans Lane. He was sent to the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, where he reportedly assaulted two staff members, according to arrest records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches spent the next two weeks in the jail's general population, where he reportedly refused to take a drug prescribed to treat him for psychotic behavior. Jail staff initially noted him to be \"clean and exhibiting good speech.\" But he rapidly deteriorated, and on Sept. 16 was described as \"poorly groomed and disheveled,\" according to the coroner's report on his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days after that observation, Roches was released. He wasn't on the street for long, though. Milpitas police arrested him the next day for assault and battery, and public drunkenness.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Correctional officers fired pepper spray, tear gas and plastic projectiles at Walter Roches, who remained mute and did not struggle.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Back at Santa Clara County Jail, staff found Roches had deteriorated further. After noting his refusal to talk, shower or cooperate with other requests -- later reports described Roches as \"catatonic\" -- the staff decided to move him to the jail's psychiatric ward. The officers commanded him to come out of his cell, but he didn’t respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of his psychosis, Roches may not have understood the commands or been able to respond, said Dr. Michelle Jorden, an assistant medical examiner in Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the officers tried pepper spray. Roches did not respond. Next, they threw a canister of tear gas through the food slot in the cell door. No response. Then using an FN303 “less lethal” firearm, the officers shot three times through the food slot, hitting Roches with plastic projectiles. He still didn’t respond. Finally, the officers opened the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches remained mute and did not struggle during the cell extraction or when the officers escorted him out, Jorden said. As part of her investigation she saw a video of the incident, which is not publicly available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches died in the jail a week later. While conducting an autopsy, Jorden found Roches had suffered head trauma and had dozens of bruises on his torso and arms, ranging in size from less than an inch to a 12-by-7.5-inch bruise on his abdomen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jorden said Roches did not die from those injuries. He died from an “untreated mental illness” and sepsis from an untreated urinary tract infection, according to her report. Roches had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia in the past. Jorden said he became acutely manic while at the jail, which raised his heart rate and blood pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10912403\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/medicalexaminer-e1459207115277.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912403\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10912403\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/medicalexaminer-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Michelle Jorden conducted Roches autopsy. She says he died from untreated mental illness, complicated by sepsis.\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Michelle Jorden conducted an autopsy on Roches. She says he died from untreated mental illness, complicated by sepsis. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Over time the body can take so much,\" she said, \"and then you can enter into an exhaustive stage and exhibit circulatory collapse.” Being subject to force would have “heightened and accelerated” the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI is now investigating the deaths of Roches, another mentally ill inmate and additional complaints about Santa Clara jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of Roches' death, Santa Clara County had the equivalent of one and a half psychiatrists for between about 3,500 and 4,000 inmates. Judges, lawyers, correctional officers and advocates agree that it could take weeks or months for an inmate to see a psychiatrist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly Knapp, an attorney with the \u003ca href=\"http://prisonlaw.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Prison Law Office\u003c/a>, filed a class action lawsuit in November against Santa Clara County for inhumane conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some serious questions about whether [Roches] was capable of refusing care or whether he should have been involuntarily medicated,” Knapp said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches' death occurred just a month after another mentally ill man died in the same jail following what investigators say was a brutal beating at the hands of three guards. That case led to murder charges and unprecedented scrutiny of how the jail handles mentally ill inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/255788391\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Death of Michael Tyree\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That other inmate, 31-year-old Michael Tyree, was sentenced to five days in jail for violating probation on a minor drug charge in August. Judge Stephen Manley presides over Santa Clara County’s mental health court and sentenced Tyree, who struggled with bipolar disorder and addiction. Manley said he wanted to send Tyree to a treatment center, but there were no beds available at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coroner’s report shows that Tyree died of blunt force trauma, including severe internal bleeding. During a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/03/three-santa-clara-jail-guards-arrested-in-inmates-death\" target=\"_blank\">preliminary hearing\u003c/a>, Dr. Joseph O’Hara of the county Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office testified that the most brutal of Tyree’s injuries were equivalent to being hit with a truck. O’Hara testified that Tyree could not have caused his own fatal injuries, which the deputies' defense attorneys argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10912297\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Michael-Head-Shot-Pic.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912297\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10912297 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Michael-Head-Shot-Pic-400x500.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Michael Tyree several years before his death.\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Michael Tyree several years before his death. \u003ccite>(Courtesy the Tyree family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the hearing, Tyree's sister Elizabeth Ott reacted to seeing photographs of her brother lying naked on the cell floor and covered with feces, vomit and bruises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really horrible,\" she said through tears outside the courthouse. \"I don’t know what would possess somebody to do such a horrible thing to anybody. He was a person, he was valued, he was loved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about Tyree’s death, Santa Clara Sheriff Laurie Smith responded, “You’re asking me how it could have happened? It was a crime. It’s being prosecuted. We did a thorough investigation, we made arrests within a week. It’s a horrible crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/scc/Pages/brc.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">independent commission\u003c/a> was created to investigate the jail. Attorneys for that body recently interviewed nearly a thousand inmates, dozens of jail staff and one inmate’s family. In their report, attorneys said numerous inmates complained that correctional officers beat mentally ill inmates to set an example for other prisoners about what behavior they will and won’t tolerate. Those prisoners are targeted, fellow inmates say, because guards do not think mentally ill inmates will report the abuse. Some guards continue to abuse mentally ill offenders, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith says her department is investigating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re getting additional grievances,\" she said. \"We’re getting additional allegations. We’ve added staff to our internal affairs unit, to our detective unit, and we’re committed to following up everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correctional officers said at commission meetings that mentally ill inmates housed in general population dormitories often suffer violence at the hands of fellow prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Allen, a correctional officer suing the sheriff’s office for workplace discrimination, is concerned that mentally ill inmates are routinely housed with the general population. He says mentally ill inmates will “kick the doors sometimes -- in some cases all night -- disrupting a dorm of 60 to 90 people. So when you open the doors you’ll find violence because these people will attack this person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen says that when correctional officers try to move mentally ill inmates to the jail’s psychiatric unit, they’re often told there’s no room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll write these mental health referrals, multiple on one particular person, and mental health will go, ‘Eh, we don’t have the space upstairs,'” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Manley is also concerned about the psychiatric ward's capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The waiting list to place people in treatment outside of the jail is roughly the same now as it was six months ago,\" he said. \"It’s anywhere from 90 to 150 people that I’ve ordered released into custody, from custody into treatment, who are not released because there is no treatment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10912302\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912302\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10912302\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"The FBI and two independent commissions are investigating the operations of Santa Clara County's Main Jail.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The FBI and two independent commissions are investigating the operations of Santa Clara County's Main Jail. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Currently, the psychiatric ward can serve 139 inmates. In February, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted to double the number of beds for mentally ill inmates in a planned new jail facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The independent commission, including Manley, called on Saturday for the Board of Supervisors to take immediate steps to change the jail leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Blue Ribbon Commission has learned that the myriad problems in the operation of the jails are not recent, but have been ongoing for some time. The problems range from, but are not limited to, mismanagement of the Inmate Welfare Fund, a broken grievance/complaint process, a flawed classification system, a broken medical and mental health system for inmates, a problematic custody input report process, a fear of retaliation by both correctional officers and inmates, a stunning lack of transparency in the jail operations and the murder of Michael Tyree. The Board of Supervisors should acknowledge that the operation of the jails under the current leadership has been a failure for the inmates, for the correctional officers and for the Taxpayers,” the commissioners wrote in a report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Growing Statewide Problem\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s jails were built to hold inmates for relatively short sentences -- usually just a few months. But a change in state law five years ago, known as realignment, shifted more felons to local jails and out of the overcrowded state prisons. In May 2011, the average daily population of jails was 69,406; in May 2015, it was 73,301. Since realignment, the state has provided more than $2.2 billion to counties to help build new correctional facilities, hire staff or create programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">No one knows how many of the roughly 73,300 people in California's jails on a daily basis are suffering from mental illness or how many of them are receiving treatment.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But one of the biggest changes that local law enforcement is grappling with is holding offenders for long periods of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not just dealing with somebody for 90 days. I’m dealing with somebody for possibly two years,” says Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean, who chairs a state committee to revise jail regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s had an impact on mentally ill inmates. Dean says that there’s a big difference between holding someone who is mentally ill for several months and holding that person for several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You look at more of a long-term treatment program, maybe a different application of medication that might help them, and then what kind of long-term programming to provide,” Dean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one knows how many of the roughly 73,300 people in California's jails on a daily basis are suffering from mental illness or how many of them are receiving treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.bscc.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Board of State and Community Corrections\u003c/a> oversees county jails from the statewide level. It collects data using a voluntary survey, including information on mental health cases and psychotropic medications. However, the agency’s staff say that some counties have interpreted what constitutes a mental health case differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010 an average of 247 county jail inmates received mental health care on a daily basis statewide, compared with 343 in 2014. During the same time period, 166 inmates received psychotropic medications on a daily basis in 2010, compared with 238 in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912312\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10912312\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-800x450.png\" alt=\"Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-400x225.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-960x540.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the information has gaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of almost five full years of data from the voluntary BSCC survey, counties did not report how many inmates they treated for mental illness almost one quarter of the time, and also did not report on how many inmates received psychotropic medications 16 percent of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More inmates are also dying in jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, 153 inmates died in custody of county jails, compared to 120 in 2010, according to \u003ca href=\"http://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/data\" target=\"_blank\">state Department of Justice\u003c/a> data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statistics suggest that inmates commit suicide at a higher rate in jails. In 2014, 38 inmates committed suicide while in custody of county jails, accounting for nearly 25 percent of deaths, compared to the 23 inmates who committed suicide while in custody of state prisons, accounting for 7 percent of deaths. There are seven deaths that occurred in 2014 in state jails the cause of which are still being investigated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912360\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10912360\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-800x346.png\" alt=\"In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder\" width=\"800\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-800x346.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-400x173.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-1180x511.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-960x416.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special Assistant Attorney General Justin Erlich oversees the state Department of Justice open data project. He says mental illness could be a contributing factor in the increase of in-custody deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got a lot of work to do around the mental health and physical health of inmates in county jails,” he said. “When you know something is happening, but you don’t know the extent of the problem, it can inhibit progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.bscc.ca.gov/s_adulttitle15&24regulationsrevision2015.php\" target=\"_blank\">committee\u003c/a> will discuss some of the first proposed changes to Title 15, the state law that sets minimum standards for jails, since realignment. Sheriff Dean of Ventura County chairs the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One proposal is to mandate training for all correctional staff who screen incoming inmates for mental illness. This would be part of an eight-hour training session that would include reviewing minimum jail standards and operations within the first six months of employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manley says that training all correctional staff is imperative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know anywhere in California they are receiving the appropriate training, and that has to change,” Manley said. “The culture has to change to understand that mentally ill offenders are very difficult to work with. They are not easy to work with and they take a lot of time, a lot of patience, and they take some compassion. And these are all things that can be taught and can be learned. But you have to be willing to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee also proposed expanding efforts to prevent suicide. However, no changes have been proposed to restrict the use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for mentally ill inmates want the Board of State and Community Corrections to make far more dramatic changes in how the jails are run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The BSCC is rejecting or failing to implement substantive changes that would ensure people with mental illness receive adequate mental health care and are not at risk of harm from suicide, solitary confinement, lengthy use of restraints and disciplinary actions for behaviors they cannot control,” says Knapp of the Prison Law Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Manley says that making jails safer for mentally ill inmates is not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jails are for punishment. After punishment you have to look at rehabilitation and treatment,” he said. “When mentally ill offenders have served their punishment time and there is no treatment for them, they simply recycle back through the jail. So we are not doing anything to promote public safety and we are not doing anything to improve the mental health of those individuals who are incarcerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Don Clyde, Alex Cwalinski, Amy Mostafa, Peter Jon Shuler and Nicole West of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was produced as a project for the California Data Fellowship, a program of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Health Journalism\u003c/a> at the \u003ca href=\"http://annenberg.usc.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The final three weeks of Walter Roches' life last September were, like much of his previous decade, violent and chaotic, complicated by mental illness and repeated encounters with law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches, 32, had completed a state prison sentence for domestic violence. Afterward, he was placed in the Evans Lane Wellness and Recovery Center, a San Jose facility that, among other things, treats mentally ill parolees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 5, over Labor Day weekend, Roches was arrested and charged with battery after a \"physical and sexual altercation\" at Evans Lane. He was sent to the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, where he reportedly assaulted two staff members, according to arrest records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches spent the next two weeks in the jail's general population, where he reportedly refused to take a drug prescribed to treat him for psychotic behavior. Jail staff initially noted him to be \"clean and exhibiting good speech.\" But he rapidly deteriorated, and on Sept. 16 was described as \"poorly groomed and disheveled,\" according to the coroner's report on his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days after that observation, Roches was released. He wasn't on the street for long, though. Milpitas police arrested him the next day for assault and battery, and public drunkenness.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Correctional officers fired pepper spray, tear gas and plastic projectiles at Walter Roches, who remained mute and did not struggle.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Back at Santa Clara County Jail, staff found Roches had deteriorated further. After noting his refusal to talk, shower or cooperate with other requests -- later reports described Roches as \"catatonic\" -- the staff decided to move him to the jail's psychiatric ward. The officers commanded him to come out of his cell, but he didn’t respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of his psychosis, Roches may not have understood the commands or been able to respond, said Dr. Michelle Jorden, an assistant medical examiner in Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the officers tried pepper spray. Roches did not respond. Next, they threw a canister of tear gas through the food slot in the cell door. No response. Then using an FN303 “less lethal” firearm, the officers shot three times through the food slot, hitting Roches with plastic projectiles. He still didn’t respond. Finally, the officers opened the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches remained mute and did not struggle during the cell extraction or when the officers escorted him out, Jorden said. As part of her investigation she saw a video of the incident, which is not publicly available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches died in the jail a week later. While conducting an autopsy, Jorden found Roches had suffered head trauma and had dozens of bruises on his torso and arms, ranging in size from less than an inch to a 12-by-7.5-inch bruise on his abdomen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jorden said Roches did not die from those injuries. He died from an “untreated mental illness” and sepsis from an untreated urinary tract infection, according to her report. Roches had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia in the past. Jorden said he became acutely manic while at the jail, which raised his heart rate and blood pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10912403\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/medicalexaminer-e1459207115277.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912403\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10912403\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/medicalexaminer-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Michelle Jorden conducted Roches autopsy. She says he died from untreated mental illness, complicated by sepsis.\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Michelle Jorden conducted an autopsy on Roches. She says he died from untreated mental illness, complicated by sepsis. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Over time the body can take so much,\" she said, \"and then you can enter into an exhaustive stage and exhibit circulatory collapse.” Being subject to force would have “heightened and accelerated” the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI is now investigating the deaths of Roches, another mentally ill inmate and additional complaints about Santa Clara jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of Roches' death, Santa Clara County had the equivalent of one and a half psychiatrists for between about 3,500 and 4,000 inmates. Judges, lawyers, correctional officers and advocates agree that it could take weeks or months for an inmate to see a psychiatrist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly Knapp, an attorney with the \u003ca href=\"http://prisonlaw.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Prison Law Office\u003c/a>, filed a class action lawsuit in November against Santa Clara County for inhumane conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some serious questions about whether [Roches] was capable of refusing care or whether he should have been involuntarily medicated,” Knapp said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches' death occurred just a month after another mentally ill man died in the same jail following what investigators say was a brutal beating at the hands of three guards. That case led to murder charges and unprecedented scrutiny of how the jail handles mentally ill inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/255788391&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/255788391'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Death of Michael Tyree\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That other inmate, 31-year-old Michael Tyree, was sentenced to five days in jail for violating probation on a minor drug charge in August. Judge Stephen Manley presides over Santa Clara County’s mental health court and sentenced Tyree, who struggled with bipolar disorder and addiction. Manley said he wanted to send Tyree to a treatment center, but there were no beds available at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coroner’s report shows that Tyree died of blunt force trauma, including severe internal bleeding. During a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/03/three-santa-clara-jail-guards-arrested-in-inmates-death\" target=\"_blank\">preliminary hearing\u003c/a>, Dr. Joseph O’Hara of the county Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office testified that the most brutal of Tyree’s injuries were equivalent to being hit with a truck. O’Hara testified that Tyree could not have caused his own fatal injuries, which the deputies' defense attorneys argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10912297\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Michael-Head-Shot-Pic.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912297\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10912297 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Michael-Head-Shot-Pic-400x500.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Michael Tyree several years before his death.\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Michael Tyree several years before his death. \u003ccite>(Courtesy the Tyree family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the hearing, Tyree's sister Elizabeth Ott reacted to seeing photographs of her brother lying naked on the cell floor and covered with feces, vomit and bruises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really horrible,\" she said through tears outside the courthouse. \"I don’t know what would possess somebody to do such a horrible thing to anybody. He was a person, he was valued, he was loved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about Tyree’s death, Santa Clara Sheriff Laurie Smith responded, “You’re asking me how it could have happened? It was a crime. It’s being prosecuted. We did a thorough investigation, we made arrests within a week. It’s a horrible crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/scc/Pages/brc.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">independent commission\u003c/a> was created to investigate the jail. Attorneys for that body recently interviewed nearly a thousand inmates, dozens of jail staff and one inmate’s family. In their report, attorneys said numerous inmates complained that correctional officers beat mentally ill inmates to set an example for other prisoners about what behavior they will and won’t tolerate. Those prisoners are targeted, fellow inmates say, because guards do not think mentally ill inmates will report the abuse. Some guards continue to abuse mentally ill offenders, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith says her department is investigating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re getting additional grievances,\" she said. \"We’re getting additional allegations. We’ve added staff to our internal affairs unit, to our detective unit, and we’re committed to following up everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correctional officers said at commission meetings that mentally ill inmates housed in general population dormitories often suffer violence at the hands of fellow prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Allen, a correctional officer suing the sheriff’s office for workplace discrimination, is concerned that mentally ill inmates are routinely housed with the general population. He says mentally ill inmates will “kick the doors sometimes -- in some cases all night -- disrupting a dorm of 60 to 90 people. So when you open the doors you’ll find violence because these people will attack this person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen says that when correctional officers try to move mentally ill inmates to the jail’s psychiatric unit, they’re often told there’s no room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll write these mental health referrals, multiple on one particular person, and mental health will go, ‘Eh, we don’t have the space upstairs,'” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Manley is also concerned about the psychiatric ward's capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The waiting list to place people in treatment outside of the jail is roughly the same now as it was six months ago,\" he said. \"It’s anywhere from 90 to 150 people that I’ve ordered released into custody, from custody into treatment, who are not released because there is no treatment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10912302\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912302\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10912302\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"The FBI and two independent commissions are investigating the operations of Santa Clara County's Main Jail.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The FBI and two independent commissions are investigating the operations of Santa Clara County's Main Jail. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Currently, the psychiatric ward can serve 139 inmates. In February, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted to double the number of beds for mentally ill inmates in a planned new jail facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The independent commission, including Manley, called on Saturday for the Board of Supervisors to take immediate steps to change the jail leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Blue Ribbon Commission has learned that the myriad problems in the operation of the jails are not recent, but have been ongoing for some time. The problems range from, but are not limited to, mismanagement of the Inmate Welfare Fund, a broken grievance/complaint process, a flawed classification system, a broken medical and mental health system for inmates, a problematic custody input report process, a fear of retaliation by both correctional officers and inmates, a stunning lack of transparency in the jail operations and the murder of Michael Tyree. The Board of Supervisors should acknowledge that the operation of the jails under the current leadership has been a failure for the inmates, for the correctional officers and for the Taxpayers,” the commissioners wrote in a report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Growing Statewide Problem\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s jails were built to hold inmates for relatively short sentences -- usually just a few months. But a change in state law five years ago, known as realignment, shifted more felons to local jails and out of the overcrowded state prisons. In May 2011, the average daily population of jails was 69,406; in May 2015, it was 73,301. Since realignment, the state has provided more than $2.2 billion to counties to help build new correctional facilities, hire staff or create programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">No one knows how many of the roughly 73,300 people in California's jails on a daily basis are suffering from mental illness or how many of them are receiving treatment.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But one of the biggest changes that local law enforcement is grappling with is holding offenders for long periods of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not just dealing with somebody for 90 days. I’m dealing with somebody for possibly two years,” says Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean, who chairs a state committee to revise jail regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s had an impact on mentally ill inmates. Dean says that there’s a big difference between holding someone who is mentally ill for several months and holding that person for several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You look at more of a long-term treatment program, maybe a different application of medication that might help them, and then what kind of long-term programming to provide,” Dean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one knows how many of the roughly 73,300 people in California's jails on a daily basis are suffering from mental illness or how many of them are receiving treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.bscc.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Board of State and Community Corrections\u003c/a> oversees county jails from the statewide level. It collects data using a voluntary survey, including information on mental health cases and psychotropic medications. However, the agency’s staff say that some counties have interpreted what constitutes a mental health case differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010 an average of 247 county jail inmates received mental health care on a daily basis statewide, compared with 343 in 2014. During the same time period, 166 inmates received psychotropic medications on a daily basis in 2010, compared with 238 in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912312\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10912312\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-800x450.png\" alt=\"Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-400x225.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-960x540.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the information has gaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of almost five full years of data from the voluntary BSCC survey, counties did not report how many inmates they treated for mental illness almost one quarter of the time, and also did not report on how many inmates received psychotropic medications 16 percent of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More inmates are also dying in jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, 153 inmates died in custody of county jails, compared to 120 in 2010, according to \u003ca href=\"http://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/data\" target=\"_blank\">state Department of Justice\u003c/a> data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statistics suggest that inmates commit suicide at a higher rate in jails. In 2014, 38 inmates committed suicide while in custody of county jails, accounting for nearly 25 percent of deaths, compared to the 23 inmates who committed suicide while in custody of state prisons, accounting for 7 percent of deaths. There are seven deaths that occurred in 2014 in state jails the cause of which are still being investigated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912360\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10912360\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-800x346.png\" alt=\"In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder\" width=\"800\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-800x346.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-400x173.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-1180x511.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-960x416.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special Assistant Attorney General Justin Erlich oversees the state Department of Justice open data project. He says mental illness could be a contributing factor in the increase of in-custody deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got a lot of work to do around the mental health and physical health of inmates in county jails,” he said. “When you know something is happening, but you don’t know the extent of the problem, it can inhibit progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.bscc.ca.gov/s_adulttitle15&24regulationsrevision2015.php\" target=\"_blank\">committee\u003c/a> will discuss some of the first proposed changes to Title 15, the state law that sets minimum standards for jails, since realignment. Sheriff Dean of Ventura County chairs the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One proposal is to mandate training for all correctional staff who screen incoming inmates for mental illness. This would be part of an eight-hour training session that would include reviewing minimum jail standards and operations within the first six months of employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manley says that training all correctional staff is imperative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know anywhere in California they are receiving the appropriate training, and that has to change,” Manley said. “The culture has to change to understand that mentally ill offenders are very difficult to work with. They are not easy to work with and they take a lot of time, a lot of patience, and they take some compassion. And these are all things that can be taught and can be learned. But you have to be willing to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee also proposed expanding efforts to prevent suicide. However, no changes have been proposed to restrict the use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for mentally ill inmates want the Board of State and Community Corrections to make far more dramatic changes in how the jails are run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The BSCC is rejecting or failing to implement substantive changes that would ensure people with mental illness receive adequate mental health care and are not at risk of harm from suicide, solitary confinement, lengthy use of restraints and disciplinary actions for behaviors they cannot control,” says Knapp of the Prison Law Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Manley says that making jails safer for mentally ill inmates is not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jails are for punishment. After punishment you have to look at rehabilitation and treatment,” he said. “When mentally ill offenders have served their punishment time and there is no treatment for them, they simply recycle back through the jail. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The action comes two days after \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/u/Leland-Yee-Firearms-Trafficking-FBI\">federal agents arrested Yee\u003c/a> in connection with an investigation into corruption and firearms trafficking. Yee had refused a call from Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg to step down. Calderon \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/21/fbi-charges-california-lawmaker-in-widespread-corruption-case/\">faces federal corruption charges\u003c/a>, while Wright \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/06/125527/state-senator-roderick-wright-convicted-felon\">was convicted\u003c/a> of voter fraud and perjury earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘One is an anomaly. Two is a coincidence. Three?’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The suspension prevents Calderon, Yee and Wright from exercising any power of office until the pending criminal cases against them have been resolved. Even so, they will continue receiving their $95,000 annual salaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg acknowledged the seriousness of the series of corruption charges against members. “One is an anomaly,” he said. “Two is a coincidence. Three?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg said it would be satisfying to simply kick out members who are in legal trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I reluctantly conclude that what would be satisfying and popular would also run afoul of the most basic American principles of due process, and the idea that people are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty,” Steinberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate president also announced the unprecedented step of canceling a floor session in April for a mandatory ethics review, with Senate officials going office by office to emphasize ethical conduct and ask staffers to come forward if they are aware of any potentially criminal activity by lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only senator to vote “no” on suspension was San Diego Republican Joel Anderson. He wants to see all three Democrats expelled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You propose to give them a Roman holiday by suspending all their ability to work for the people, but continue to pay them the people’s money?” Anderson asked. “You’re going down the wrong path. You’re wrong. You still believe that senators are above the law, and you’re wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Yee’s lawyer released a brief statement on the Senate’s vote. “Suspension is the right step for now,” attorney Paul DeMeester said, “and is appropriate in a system that presumes the innocence of the accused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also Friday, 18 of 25 defendants charged with Yee earlier this week appeared in federal court for detention hearings and assignment of attorneys. Those scheduled to appear included Keith Jackson, a former school board member and Yee political consultant accused of arms trafficking, participating in a murder-for-hire scheme and corruption. Also appearing today: Raymond Chow, the purported leader of a suspected Chinatown gang infiltrated by the FBI. Yee is scheduled to be back in court Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains reporting from the Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9446_photo-lpr-e1395851647607.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-130461\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9446_photo-lpr-e1395851647607-640x580.jpg\" alt=\"A California Highway Patrol officer and other officials outside Sen. Leland Yee's Sacramento office Wednesday. (Scott Detrow/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"580\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A California Highway Patrol officer and other officials outside Sen. Leland Yee's Sacramento office Wednesday. (Scott Detrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:45 a.m. Friday: \u003c/strong>KQED's Scott Detrow reports that the s\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/28/state-senate-suspends-leland-yee-ron-calderon-roderick-wright/\">tate Senate has voted 28-1\u003c/a> to suspend Democratic Sens. Leland Yee, Ron Calderon and Roderick Wright, due to a variety of criminal charges. Yee's attorney, Paul F. DeMeester, issued a statement that said, \"Suspension is the right step for now, and is appropriate in a system that presumes the innocence of the accused.\"\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:15 a.m. Friday: \u003c/strong>Eighteen of 26 defendants named in a federal criminal complaint, which includes allegations of corruption and weapons trafficking against state Sen. Leland Yee, will appear in federal court this morning for detention hearings and assignment of attorneys. The defendants scheduled to appear this morning include former San Francisco school board president Keith Jackson, implicated in a murder-for-hire scheme, and Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow, the purported leader of a San Francisco gang whose organization was infiltrated by the FBI. Yee is not scheduled to appear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>----\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FBI raids are on their way to becoming a state Capitol ritual. On Wednesday morning, FBI agents carted boxes of documents out of state Sen. Leland Yee’s offices. Hours later, the San Francisco Democrat sat in federal court, hearing the seven corruption and weapons-trafficking charges he faces. (C\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/a-reporters-guide-to-affidavit-on-leland-yee/\">lick here to read\u003c/a> an annotated copy of the federal charges.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, federal prosecutors announced charges against Sen. Ron Calderon, a Democrat from the Los Angeles area. The FBI raided his office last June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When public officials choose to callously betray the trust of the people they serve, and selfishly line their pockets, then it’s up to us to take the steps responsible to make sure we hold these individuals accountable,” said U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte when he announced Calderon’s indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And federal agents have certainly been taking a lot of those steps lately. The two cases feature numerous agents going undercover, posing as shady businessmen and movie producers and bribing lawmakers for official favors. Yee allegedly delivered Senate proclamations, set up meetings with other legislators and made calls to state agencies on behalf of the undercover agents — in addition to allegedly participating in a scheme to help an undercover agent buy weapons. 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threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$25,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1/15/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Payment to Calderon-tied nonprofit\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>15 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Calderon hires undercover agent\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,900\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1/15/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Calderon campaign contribution\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>75 (affad.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Calderon hires undercover agent\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>2/2/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Ghost job paycheck for Calderon's daughter\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>3/2/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Ghost job paycheck for Calderon's daughter\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit 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operations can generate criticism — that the FBI is setting lawmakers up or even wasting taxpayer dollars. Former agent James Wedick said Thursday he disagrees with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without those operations you’re not going to find out that you’ve got corrupt individuals doing bad things — stealing money from the public,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedick ran \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-11/magazine/tm-24021_1_undercover-agent\" target=\"_blank\">the “Shrimp Scam” investigation\u003c/a> in the 1980s. FBI agents bribed state lawmakers into carving out tax breaks for their phony shrimp company and creating legislation that actually made it to Gov. George Deukmejian’s desk. “At that time we needed to inform him that the two measures were bogus and it was an FBI operation,” Wedick recalled. “He … could not believe it.” Deukmejian vetoed both bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>False fronts and FBI-initiated bribes are necessary, Wedick argues, because there’s typically little or no evidence when actual bribes take place. “The conversations, if there are conversations about payments of monies, are usually one-on-one. And so without the kind of evidence where a conversation is heard, it’s one person’s word against another’s,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as for scrutiny, he says these public corruption investigations don’t move forward without scores of meetings with higher-ups at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. The stakes are high — the agents are tinkering with public policy and can ruin careers even if they never bring any charges. On top of that, Wedick says the bureau is mindful that legislative sting operations boil down to “one branch of government, the executive branch, messing with, as you say, another branch of government. The executive branch naturally does not want to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee’s arrest came on the same day the FBI raided a New York legislator’s office and arrested the mayor of Charlotte, N.C. Wedick says the agency may be giving more attention to corruption issues, after a decade focused on terrorism threats. Stanford Law School Professor Robert Weisberg agrees. “It may well be that the FBI now feels it needs to get back to more of its conventional law enforcement, and can do so,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weisberg adds the FBI may have other motivations in going after lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s something attractive, and I don’t mean this in any critical way, about political corruption cases,” he said. “They get great visibility. 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Calderon allegedly pushed to lower a film tax credit threshold he thought would help an agent posing as an independent film producer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day agents raided Calderon's office, Yee warned an associate to “be really, real careful. Got to double check, triple check everything.” Unfortunately for Yee, federal agents were listening in on that conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to court documents, the FBI spent nearly $70,000 bribing Yee. And the FBI says it delivered nearly $90,000 to Calderon. 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