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"content": "\u003cp>A law enforcement oversight agency plans to subpoena the Santa Clara County sheriff to obtain records from an allegedly abandoned internal investigation in the case of a man with mental illness who was severely injured in 2018 while in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21060938-attachment-217885\">A preliminary report\u003c/a> by the county Office of Correction and Law Enforcement Monitoring made public Friday evening questioned what it called the “highly irregular and problematic” decision to close the internal investigation into Andrew Hogan’s case before it was completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of intervening as 24-year-old Andrew Hogan pleaded for help, Santa Clara County correctional officers and medical staff allegedly stood by and did nothing as he beat his head against the metal cage of a prisoner transport van until he knocked himself unconscious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hogan was in a coma for six weeks following the traumatic brain injury he suffered on Aug. 25, 2018, according to a legal claim. He lives today with long-term disabilities affecting his memory, movement and speech, his attorney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new report from the Office of Correction and Law Enforcement Monitoring, or OCLEM, says the public has a right to information about the case, which is at the center of county supervisors’ call last month for multiple investigations into longtime sheriff Laurie Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCLEM is an independent agency formed by Santa Clara County in 2018 to provide oversight over the sheriff. Its report mirrored concerns aired by politicians in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite repeated requests, “the Sheriff (through her attorney) has expressly declined to provide us any information relating to the Internal Affairs investigation that her agency appears to have initiated and then deactivated,” the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sheriff’s Office did not respond to a request for comment Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That unexplained and abrupt end to the internal probe also factored into the county’s decision to settle a lawsuit brought by Hogan and his parents for $10 million last year, according to a second bombshell document that also was made public Friday.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Excerpt from a report by the Office of Correction and Law Enforcement Monitoring\"]‘These facts, taken together with the unexplained closure of the Internal Affairs investigation, certainly raise the question of whether the officer’s position in the union and its support for the Sheriff’s political campaign played a role in the decision to deactivate the Internal Affairs investigation.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Counsel James Williams wrote in a Feb. 10, 2020, memo to the Board of Supervisors that a jury could find that the sheriff essentially signed off on unconstitutional conduct by a jail supervisor at the scene of Hogan’s injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would open up the county to even greater liability, according to the memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hogan, then 24, was arrested Aug. 10, 2018, on a minor offense in hopes, according to his attorney, that he would be treated in the psychiatric unit of the county’s Main Jail. Hogan has schizoaffective disorder and had been unable to get treatment, his attorney said. He ended up being held in the Elmwood Men’s Facility until Aug. 25, 2018, when he began to beat his head against the wall of a jail cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corrections officers decided to transfer him, and coaxed him into a steel-caged prisoner transport van.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were 10 million things they did wrong,” Hogan’s attorney Paula Canny said. “And Andy suffered 10 million dollars worth of injuries and profoundly impacted his life, his parents’ life, the life of his brothers, his grandmother, everybody that loved Andy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county plans to soon release video that captured different phases of the incident; some four hours of footage is still being redacted. Both the county counsel’s memo and the OCLEM report cite video that has yet to be made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the approximately 12-minute drive between the two jails, Hogan started to bang his head on a steel beam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the deputies estimated that Mr. Hogan struck his head at least 50 times,” while en route, the county counsel’s memo says. After the van arrived at the main jail, video captured an unidentified sheriff’s supervisor peeking into the van while a nurse assessed Hogan and suggested he immediately be transported by ambulance to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first unnamed supervisor noticed “there was an extreme amount of blood coming from the top of his head dripping onto his face,” according to the OCLEM report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the supervisor then shut the door to the van and called for the jail’s emergency response team to suit up in protective gear to extract Hogan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisor can be heard on video saying that in the meantime “Hogan ‘will do all the damage he wants [to himself],’” according to the county counsel’s memo, which says the supervisor “appears harsh and insensitive to Hogan’s needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was horrifying,” Canny said about the sergeant’s statement. “There’s two things that are horrifying about that: One, that that was her perception, and two, as she said it, the nurse was standing right next to her and did nothing to correct her. To me it’s a double whammy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several minutes passed while ambulance personnel and jail staff waited for the specialized jail team to arrive.[aside postID=\"news_11884772\" label=\"More Coverage of the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Supervisor 1 closed the doors of the van, leaving no one to monitor Mr. Hogan as he continued to bleed and decompensate,” the OCLEM report says. “On the recordings, Mr. Hogan can be heard yelling irrational statements with less and less vigor as he eventually lapses into unconsciousness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county counsel wrote that images of EMTs “standing around and casually chatting with jail staff” while Hogan lost consciousness “will not resonate well with a jury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The specialized team removed Hogan, unconscious, from the van approximately 9 minutes after an ambulance first arrived, according to a timeline in the OCLEM report citing jail surveillance video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jail had no policies on transporting mentally ill people when Hogan was injured, according to the county counsel. But that policy changed as a result of Hogan’s case, directing that people with mental illness only be transported in a sedan or ambulance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had absolutely no policy,” Canny said. “They had no training.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCLEM report echoes suspicions first advanced by county supervisors Joe Simitian and Otto Lee last month about politics potentially influencing an internal investigation in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jail’s watch commander at the time, then-Lt. Amy Le, who was present at the scene of Hogan’s injury, according to Canny and others familiar with the case, was promoted three months after Hogan was injured. She was also the head of the correctional officers union, which had endorsed Smith in a contentious reelection bid that the sheriff won in November 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These facts, taken together with the unexplained closure of the Internal Affairs investigation, certainly raise the question of whether the officer’s position in the union and its support for the Sheriff’s political campaign played a role in the decision to deactivate the Internal Affairs investigation,” the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Le resigned facing discipline for misconduct unrelated to the Hogan case in 2019. She’s suing the county for wrongful termination alleging discrimination, harassment and retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oversight agency was granted subpoena power late last year under a new state law, and the office says it will now use that power to probe what happened to shut down the internal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once an Internal Affairs investigation is initiated, it should be the extraordinary circumstance that would cause it to be closed without a finding,” the OCLEM report says. “The interruption of the fact-collection process means that leadership remains in the dark about precisely what happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county and oversight office plan to release more information about the case as it is prepared. The Board of Supervisors is scheduled to receive the reports on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Le resigned facing discipline unrelated to the Hogan case in 2019. She’s now suing the county for wrongful termination alleging discrimination, harassment and retaliation. She said she supports efforts to increase transparency and oversight of the jails.[aside postID=\"news_11702978\" label=\"Coverage of the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Race\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisors’ call for investigations comes as Smith faces growing scandals on multiple fronts. Higher-ups in her office are facing criminal bribery and conspiracy charges for allegedly arranging concealed carry weapons permits in exchange for campaign donations to reelect Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she’s publicly fought against granting unfettered access to an independent oversight agency, the county’s Office of Correction and Law Enforcement Monitoring. 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"content": "\u003cp>More than 1,100 people at the Fresno County Jail have tested positive for COVID-19 since the pandemic began. The running tally of infections at the county-run complex actually surpasses those at all but two state prisons in California. But unlike the state’s careful tracking and reporting of cases at prisons and nursing homes, data on COVID-19 infections in county jails have not been consistently collected or made readily available to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the hundreds of thousands of people who pass through jails in California each year could be a vector for spreading the virus, each of the state’s 58 counties run their facilities independently, with varying approaches to tracking or reporting COVID-19 infections among inmates and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say the lack of transparency around the COVID-19 outbreak in Fresno and other county-run jails obscures a serious public health risk not only for inmates and staff but also for the people in their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Fresno County Jail Outbreak\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The outbreak at the Fresno County Jail was discovered in mid-June, not by the sheriff’s office, but by state prison officials who were screening a group of inmates being transferred to Wasco State Prison near Bakersfield and found 13 who tested positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, Fresno County jail officials began widespread testing of inmates in two of the downtown Fresno jail’s three buildings, and the case count there exploded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since June, at least 1,115 inmates and 76 employees have tested positive, according to an Aug. 25 email from Fresno County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Tony Botti. Of those, 21 inmates were at one time hospitalized. The agency has reported no deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Aug. 25, 111 inmates were in quarantine, down from a peak of 901 earlier in the summer. However, the department has been unable to say how many of those were considered active cases at any given time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have a breakdown of how many are still … potentially infectious. We just lump them all together in quarantine and release them … once they clear their 13-day period,” Botti wrote in an earlier email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the number of potentially contagious inmates has dropped precipitously since the outbreak’s peak, cumulative case counts are a consistent measure of the scale of outbreaks among facilities and agencies. They also represent the total number of people associated with a particular outbreak who could become a vector for transmitting the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>How Fresno Compares\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The New York Times now ranks the outbreak in Fresno as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html\">12th largest cluster of cases\u003c/a> — including both inmates and staff — at a single facility in the country, but it’s not clear how other jails in California rank when not all counties are consistently reporting this information to public health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kathleen Guneratne, senior staff attorney, ACLU of Northern California\"]'We have an extreme vacuum of information in the county jail system. The public needs to know about the risks jails are exposing members of their community to so they can protect themselves and those members.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) collects information on jails from county health officials, but won’t publish it because it is often “incomplete,” according to an Aug. 3 email from a spokesperson, who attributed the problem to the high volume of cases and inadequate resources for counties to report\u003cbr>\nthem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CDPH shares a wide variety of data about COVID-19 with the public to help general understanding about how the virus is impacting our communities,” the spokesperson wrote. “In considering which data to make available … CDPH considers the reliability and completeness of available data.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apparently, jail data has not made the cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One agency that does make COVID-19 data readily available is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/population-status-tracking/\">California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation\u003c/a>, which oversees the state’s prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently the largest outbreak is at San Quentin State Prison, where more than 2,200 inmates have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began, according to the agency's website. The next largest outbreak is rapidly expanding at Avenal State Prison, where more than 1,700 inmates were found to have COVID-19 —175 of whom were diagnosed in just the last two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Fresno County Jail were a prison, its cumulative number of cases during the pandemic among inmates would rank it the third largest outbreak — larger than 33 of California’s prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"cdcr\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘Substantial Vectors’ of COVID-19\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Unlike prisons, where inmates can be housed for decades as they serve out their sentences, jails typically hold people convicted of lesser crimes for a few months on average. Many people in jails are still awaiting trial and have yet to be convicted. The frequent turnover, combined with close quarters, can make jails hotbeds for the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucia Tian, Chief Analytics Officer of the American Civil Liberties Union, was part of a data team that put together a report in April warning that outbreaks in jails could lead to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/aclu_covid19-jail-report_2020-8_1.pdf\">tens to hundreds of thousands more deaths\u003c/a> than forecasters had predicted early on in the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jails are a really substantial vector for the spread of COVID-19,” Tian said, referring to jails as the “revolving doors of incarceration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, nearly 800,000 people were booked into California jails, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/californias-incarcerated-population-plunges-to-new-low-during-covid-19/\">analysis\u003c/a> by the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say the lack of information on COVID-19 at county jails could compromise safety both inside and outside of the facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a public health issue all the way around,” said Elizabeth Diaz, Fresno County’s Public Defender. “Whether someone is incarcerated or is not, it affects the community as a whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz said she is concerned not only about the safety of inmates, but also of her staff — the public defenders who meet their clients in the jail and in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathleen Guneratne, a senior staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California, said data on COVID-19 in jails is critical to ensuring an adequate public health response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have an extreme vacuum of information in the county jail system,” Guneratne said. “The public needs to know about the risks jails are exposing members of their community to so they can protect themselves and those members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Some Jails Providing Data\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite the lack of centralized data, some jail systems have reported large outbreaks on their websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Aug. 25, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department \u003ca href=\"https://lasd.org/covid19updates/\">reported\u003c/a> 3,133 COVID-19 infections among inmates and 826 among staff; the Orange County Sheriff’s Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocsd.org/about_ocsd/covid_19\">confirmed\u003c/a> in excess of 529 cases among the incarcerated and 166 positive tests among employees; and the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedacountysheriff.org/admin_covid19.php\">reported\u003c/a> that 240 inmates and 53 employees tested positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corresponding by email on Aug. 25, Santa Clara County officials stated that 173 people incarcerated in the jails and 39 employees had tested positive for the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office, which does not make COVID-19 data available on its website, initially sent out press releases about the quarantine and outbreak but later stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It stirs up hysteria when things become so data driven,” spokesman Botti wrote in a July 21 email to media outlets. \"Once we reach the point of where our mass quarantine has ended, we will make an announcement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Defender Diaz said the Sheriff’s Office provides her office with information about COVID-19 cases at Fresno's Jail when prompted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We ask the question and we get the answers. It’s not necessarily forthcoming,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions about transparency, Botti said, “I don’t agree that we have not been transparent with our COVID situation in the jail. We have regularly released numbers upon request to media members. We also proactively announced when we went into a large quarantine at the North Annex Jail due to a dozen inmates testing positive after a transfer to Wasco State Prison. We continued to provide regular updates of quarantine numbers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Botti said his office does not intend to publish COVID-19 numbers on its website, but that it will provide new jail-related numbers, on a weekly basis, upon request by media members.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Advocates Call for State Oversight\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After months of pressure from advocacy groups, California’s Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) launched \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/profile/kstevens#!/vizhome/BSCCCOVID-19inDetentionFacilitiesDashboard/Instructions\">a dashboard\u003c/a> on July 31 of COVID-19 data in local detention facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that the community has a great interest in this information,” said Linda Penner, who chairs the oversight board. “You'll be able to look at a county and, you know, with the click of a mouse, you'll be able to look at what happened last week and the week before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates say it does not illustrate the full scope of jail outbreaks in the state. The data does not include infections that occurred during the first four months of the pandemic, making it impossible to see the full size of each facility’s outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asking officials to provide virus data stretching back months “was a big lift for the counties when they are dealing with so many challenges related to the COVID-19 response,” wrote BSCC Director of Communications Tracie Cone in an Aug. 3 email. “Getting the cumulative numbers to date raised some concerns, specifically about accuracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But without the total counts, advocates say, the dashboard is inadequate. Brian Goldstein, Director of Policy with the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice says it’s the wrong decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Californians should be outraged,” Goldstein said. “The Board of State and Community Corrections remains willfully ignorant of conditions within jails and juvenile facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU’s Guneratne agreed. “It does not give us a very full picture of what is happening at the county levels to address the risk of contagion,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A month after the dashboard’s launch, three counties — Amador, Sacramento, and Tehama — have yet to contribute to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Fresno County Ramps Up Testing\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said her department’s response to the outbreak has been limited by space and the number of individual cells available for isolating inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some jails have the ability to isolate inmates and quarantine them before they’re put into the general population. We don’t have that ability,” Mims said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno County’s jail has employed a system that quarantines groups of inmates together by color code — yellow for those with symptoms, orange for those known to have been exposed and red for those who tested positive — and then allows people to join the general population after 10 days of quarantine and three days of no symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims\"]'Some jails have the ability to isolate inmates and quarantine them before they’re put into the general population. We don’t have that ability.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates argue that containing the virus should also involve strategies for reducing jail populations like releasing pretrial offenders who pose no significant risk of harm to others or of fleeing and eliminating outstanding warrants for offenses like failing to appear in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the ACLU report on jails and COVID-19, Fresno County’s jail system at the beginning of the pandemic was the country’s 20th largest. Since March, however, Mims said the jail population had dropped from roughly 3,000 to 2,100 inmates, thanks largely to an emergency order from the state’s Judicial Council setting \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/judicial-council-adopts-new-rules-to-lower-jail-population-suspend-evictions-and-foreclosures\">bail at $0\u003c/a> for misdemeanors and lower-level felonies that was issued statewide in April and renewed locally in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reduction in the incarcerated population made the jail’s color-coded quarantine system easier to carry out, Mims said, but she warned that the policy could backfire when it comes to public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had plenty of those offenders re-offend, and they came back to the jail after being arrested again,” she said. “So it’s a two-sided coin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s office has committed to testing all inmates for the disease weekly, as well as testing all new arrivals upon intake, according to Botti. All employees, 20 of whom were isolating at home as of last week, can also be tested weekly on a voluntary basis.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The frequent turnover, combined with close quarters, can make jails hotbeds for the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucia Tian, Chief Analytics Officer of the American Civil Liberties Union, was part of a data team that put together a report in April warning that outbreaks in jails could lead to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/aclu_covid19-jail-report_2020-8_1.pdf\">tens to hundreds of thousands more deaths\u003c/a> than forecasters had predicted early on in the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jails are a really substantial vector for the spread of COVID-19,” Tian said, referring to jails as the “revolving doors of incarceration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, nearly 800,000 people were booked into California jails, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/californias-incarcerated-population-plunges-to-new-low-during-covid-19/\">analysis\u003c/a> by the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say the lack of information on COVID-19 at county jails could compromise safety both inside and outside of the facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a public health issue all the way around,” said Elizabeth Diaz, Fresno County’s Public Defender. “Whether someone is incarcerated or is not, it affects the community as a whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz said she is concerned not only about the safety of inmates, but also of her staff — the public defenders who meet their clients in the jail and in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathleen Guneratne, a senior staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California, said data on COVID-19 in jails is critical to ensuring an adequate public health response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have an extreme vacuum of information in the county jail system,” Guneratne said. “The public needs to know about the risks jails are exposing members of their community to so they can protect themselves and those members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Some Jails Providing Data\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite the lack of centralized data, some jail systems have reported large outbreaks on their websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Aug. 25, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department \u003ca href=\"https://lasd.org/covid19updates/\">reported\u003c/a> 3,133 COVID-19 infections among inmates and 826 among staff; the Orange County Sheriff’s Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocsd.org/about_ocsd/covid_19\">confirmed\u003c/a> in excess of 529 cases among the incarcerated and 166 positive tests among employees; and the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedacountysheriff.org/admin_covid19.php\">reported\u003c/a> that 240 inmates and 53 employees tested positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corresponding by email on Aug. 25, Santa Clara County officials stated that 173 people incarcerated in the jails and 39 employees had tested positive for the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office, which does not make COVID-19 data available on its website, initially sent out press releases about the quarantine and outbreak but later stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It stirs up hysteria when things become so data driven,” spokesman Botti wrote in a July 21 email to media outlets. \"Once we reach the point of where our mass quarantine has ended, we will make an announcement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Defender Diaz said the Sheriff’s Office provides her office with information about COVID-19 cases at Fresno's Jail when prompted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We ask the question and we get the answers. It’s not necessarily forthcoming,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions about transparency, Botti said, “I don’t agree that we have not been transparent with our COVID situation in the jail. We have regularly released numbers upon request to media members. We also proactively announced when we went into a large quarantine at the North Annex Jail due to a dozen inmates testing positive after a transfer to Wasco State Prison. We continued to provide regular updates of quarantine numbers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Botti said his office does not intend to publish COVID-19 numbers on its website, but that it will provide new jail-related numbers, on a weekly basis, upon request by media members.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Advocates Call for State Oversight\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After months of pressure from advocacy groups, California’s Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) launched \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/profile/kstevens#!/vizhome/BSCCCOVID-19inDetentionFacilitiesDashboard/Instructions\">a dashboard\u003c/a> on July 31 of COVID-19 data in local detention facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that the community has a great interest in this information,” said Linda Penner, who chairs the oversight board. “You'll be able to look at a county and, you know, with the click of a mouse, you'll be able to look at what happened last week and the week before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates say it does not illustrate the full scope of jail outbreaks in the state. The data does not include infections that occurred during the first four months of the pandemic, making it impossible to see the full size of each facility’s outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asking officials to provide virus data stretching back months “was a big lift for the counties when they are dealing with so many challenges related to the COVID-19 response,” wrote BSCC Director of Communications Tracie Cone in an Aug. 3 email. “Getting the cumulative numbers to date raised some concerns, specifically about accuracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But without the total counts, advocates say, the dashboard is inadequate. Brian Goldstein, Director of Policy with the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice says it’s the wrong decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Californians should be outraged,” Goldstein said. “The Board of State and Community Corrections remains willfully ignorant of conditions within jails and juvenile facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU’s Guneratne agreed. “It does not give us a very full picture of what is happening at the county levels to address the risk of contagion,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A month after the dashboard’s launch, three counties — Amador, Sacramento, and Tehama — have yet to contribute to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Fresno County Ramps Up Testing\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said her department’s response to the outbreak has been limited by space and the number of individual cells available for isolating inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some jails have the ability to isolate inmates and quarantine them before they’re put into the general population. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#1\">\u003cem>Jump to: How to help incarcerated people right now.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated on July 17 at 6:50 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeremy Puckett spent 18 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He was exonerated and walked free in Sacramento on March 13, 2020 — just days before Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a statewide shelter-in-place order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m happy to be home, absolutely,” Puckett said. “But there’s really not too much I can do out here because of this shelter in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puckett was arrested and charged with a murder robbery and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in 2002. But over the course of the past six years, the \u003ca href=\"http://ncip.org\">Northern California Innocence Project\u003c/a> helped expose \u003ca href=\"http://ncip.org/jeremy-puckett/\">numerous problems\u003c/a> with Puckett’s prosecution that were never presented to the jury — including an alibi, a recantation from the perpetrator who originally implicated Puckett and significant evidence that included 700 pages of materials the government withheld from him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although happy to be home with his family in Sacramento, Puckett has entered a much different world than he’d envisioned just months ago. The coronavirus has posed unforeseen challenges — both for him and the many people he knows who are still behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been dealing with problems with getting my Social Security card, my California’s driver’s license and ID as well,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But mostly, Puckett said he’s concerned for the safety of people who are still on the inside, including his son, who’s been quarantined in county jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jeremy Puckett\"]‘I’d much rather be out here dealing with this situation than dealing with it in there.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quarantine was a precautionary measure after his son’s cellmate came down with a fever, but Puckett is worried because he hasn’t heard from him in more than a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puckett said he keeps in touch with friends still in prison, some of whom have shared a variety of concerns — from losing access to law libraries that are critical to incarcerated people fighting their own court cases, to seeing some guards not wearing masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re incarcerated, you’re basically sitting in a box,” Puckett said. “There’s only so much you can do, so you know, you’re more worried about what’s coming in than what’s going out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incarcerated people are \u003ca href=\"https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/03/19/this-chart-shows-why-the-prison-population-is-so-vulnerable-to-covid-19\">particularly vulnerable during this pandemic\u003c/a>, and new safety measures have also limited the support they’re able to receive. In the California state prison system, for instance, all visitors, volunteers and rehabilitative program providers have been suspended since mid-March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Puckett, the timing of his release has been bittersweet, but he’s grateful to be able to spend extra time with his sister and daughter at their home in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, it’s good and it’s bad, so I take it as it is,” he said. “But I’d much rather be out here dealing with this situation than dealing with it in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puckett said there are ways to make a positive impact in the lives of incarcerated people despite safety restrictions, such as writing to them or donating to organizations that are continuing to do critical work, like the\u003ca href=\"http://ncip.org\"> Innocence Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is a list of ways you can help incarcerated people during the pandemic:\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"1\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#2\">Give Money Directly\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#3\">Help People Post Bail\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#4\">Donate to Organizations Helping Incarcerated Individuals\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#5\">Send a Message of Encouragement\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#6\">Support Those Coming Out of Jail or Prison\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.themarshallproject.org/?ref=nav\">The Marshall Project\u003c/a>, a nonprofit news organization focused on criminal justice, created \u003ca href=\"https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/05/05/covid-19-a-survival-guide-for-incarcerated-people\">a survival guide for incarcerated people \u003c/a>that gives advice for how they can protect themselves while in jail or prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"2\">\u003c/a>Give Money Directly\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org/?fbclid=IwAR3jbwbIfcugrMIhkT_xMFaeupszlAlZVxbF75wIuugS6hNAPOHW4oOhHOA\">Restore Justice\u003c/a>, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization for criminal justice reform, organized \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/823371021475580/about/\">a Facebook group\u003c/a> to help people find incarcerated individuals who need money for commissary items such as food, or hygiene products like soap and toothpaste. You can find identification information for an incarcerated person who needs money and \u003ca href=\"https://web.connectnetwork.com/deposit-money-inmate-commissary/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIxtbIup-v6AIVjSCtBh1ecgDXEAAYASABEgLwj_D_BwE\">send it directly\u003c/a> to that person’s account.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"3\">\u003c/a>Help People Post Bail\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Community bail funds allow people to pay their bail and await trial at home, thus reducing jail populations. \u003ca href=\"https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directory\">Here is a national directory\u003c/a> of bail funds within the criminal or immigration detention systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"4\">\u003c/a>Donate to Organizations Helping Incarcerated Individuals\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some community organizations have created funds to provide personal protective equipment and hygiene supplies to incarcerated people in jails and prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizations that support incarcerated people continue to do critical work, even though many of their efforts are currently hindered by health and safety precautions. Here are some local organizations that are continuing to provide support and resources:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Support the \u003ca href=\"http://ncip.org\">Northern California Innocence Project\u003c/a> by donating toward a variety of efforts that continue through the pandemic, including case work and client support, policy reform and virtual classroom and curriculum development. \u003ca href=\"http://ncip.org/how-to-help-while-we-shelter-in-place/\">Donate here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org\">Restore Justice\u003c/a> is accepting donations to purchase N95 masks for incarcerated people and staff at prisons. \u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org/donate-for-covid-19/\">Donate here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Science Policy Group at UCSF is currently working \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11813091/hand-sanitizer-for-the-people-the-allyship-of-an-actor-and-phd-student\">on a mutual aid project\u003c/a> to distribute hand sanitizer to vulnerable populations in the Bay Area, including people who are incarcerated. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/gqgve-hand-sanitizer-for-vulnerable-groups-amid-covid19?\">Donate here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonlit.org\">Prisoners Literature Project\u003c/a> is currently unable to send books, for the most part, but you can still buy books through their Amazon wish list for when operations resume. \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/PLPwishlist\">Find it here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.insightprisonproject.org\">Insight Prison Project\u003c/a>, based in San Rafael, offers programs for prisoners and parolees. \u003ca href=\"https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/insightprisonproject\">Donate here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"5\">\u003c/a>Send a Message of Encouragement\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Since health and safety precautions have limited the visitors who can come into prisons and jails, incarcerated people are now even further isolated from family, friends and volunteers. Puckett and Lori Stone, a spokesperson for the Northern California Innocence Project, said receiving mail can go a long way in helping to lift incarcerated people’s spirits, especially now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that writing is really awesome because, you know, everybody out here is in lockdown in the communities, but the prisons are in lockdown as well,” Stone said. “There are a lot of folks that are kind of on their own inside the prisons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To send a letter, you have to know the name and ID number of an incarcerated person. If you don’t know someone personally, you can locate a pen pal online or through an organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Contact someone directly:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/visitors/howtocontact/\">Here’s how to contact someone\u003c/a> you already know in California state prison.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Find a pen pal:\u003c/strong> You can find incarcerated people in search of a pen pal through a Facebook group, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/prison.pen.pals.inmate.penpals/\">this one\u003c/a>, or through efforts like the \u003ca href=\"https://prisonercorrespondenceproject.com/getting-a-penpal/\">Prisoner Correspondence Project\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://writeaprisoner.com/home/faq#faq-443903\">Write a Prisoner\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Reach out to students at San Quentin State Prison:\u003c/strong> Though the \u003ca href=\"http://www.prisonuniversityproject.org/?fbclid=IwAR2bBxaS1xPHLGiryLHCoQgSEedZYyekrKEAzEEtNrdZRw9jZJVtW-GkkLw\">Prison University Project\u003c/a> is temporarily suspending all programming at San Quentin State Prison, you can \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Prison.University.Project/posts/10156795907691932?__tn__=-R\">send a message\u003c/a> to students at info@prisonuniversityproject.org, with the subject heading “Message to Students.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Go through the Innocence Project:\u003c/strong> One Innocence Project client, Darrill Henry, had his conviction overturned in April, and he’s now awaiting his new trial from Louisiana State Penitentiary. Send him a message \u003ca href=\"https://www.innocenceproject.org/petitions/send-a-note-to-darrill/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"6\">\u003c/a>Support People Released From Jail or Prison\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In April, California state prison officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11811822/amid-pandemic-state-releases-thousands-of-prisoners-but-will-they-have-support-at-home\">began the early release\u003c/a> of roughly 3,500 nonviolent offenders — mostly those within 60 days of their release date or who had already been granted parole — to help alleviate crowding amid the coronavirus pandemic. Local jails have also released thousands of low-level inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"san-quentin\" label=\"outbreak at san quentin\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, an outbreak that has grown to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827695/pressure-mounts-for-newsom-to-release-vulnerable-incarcerated-people\"> more than 2,300 cases\u003c/a> of COVID-19 in the state’s network of prisons has worried public health officials about the impact on prisoners, staff and the wider hospital system in Bay Area. Gov. Newsom announced July 10 that California will release 8,000 people incarcerated in the state’s prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And advocates are\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11811822/amid-pandemic-state-releases-thousands-of-prisoners-but-will-they-have-support-at-home\"> concerned\u003c/a> that those who are released won’t have the resources to stay healthy or face the increased challenges the pandemic poses in finding housing, work and even basic needs. Here are some organizations providing support:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.ca-reentry.org\">California Reentry Program \u003c/a>aims to reduce recidivism by supporting incarcerated people at San Quentin with education and resources before being released — and then continuing to support them afterwards. “We are here to help people get out and get home,” said the program’s executive director, Judith Tata, in an email. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ca-reentry.org/donate\">Donate here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://northoaklandrestorativejustice.wordpress.com\">North Oakland Restorative Justice Council\u003c/a> has been regularly accepting in-person donations to support people returning to their communities from prison or jail. Visit the group’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/NorthOaklandRestorativeJustice/\">Facebook page\u003c/a> for more details.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonerreentrynetwork.org\">Prison Reentry Network\u003c/a>, an Oakland-based nonprofit, helps pay rent for formerly incarcerated people’. \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonerreentrynetwork.org/donate\">Donate here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.siliconvalleydebug.org\">Silicon Valley De-Bug\u003c/a> is a San Jose-based criminal justice advocacy organization that is providing support to people being released from Santa Clara jails. \u003ca href=\"https://www.razoo.com/story/Silicon-Valley-De-Bug\">Donate here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Oakland-based nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://prisonerswithchildren.org\">Legal Services for Prisoners with Children\u003c/a> started an emergency fund for people recently released from incarceration and their families. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11812557/oakland-nonprofit-helping-to-house-those-released-from-jail-amid-pandemic\">Read KQED’s coverage\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://prisonerswithchildren.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=1\">donate here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Know of other ways to help or organizations that are supporting the incarcerated population right now? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quarantine was a precautionary measure after his son’s cellmate came down with a fever, but Puckett is worried because he hasn’t heard from him in more than a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puckett said he keeps in touch with friends still in prison, some of whom have shared a variety of concerns — from losing access to law libraries that are critical to incarcerated people fighting their own court cases, to seeing some guards not wearing masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re incarcerated, you’re basically sitting in a box,” Puckett said. “There’s only so much you can do, so you know, you’re more worried about what’s coming in than what’s going out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incarcerated people are \u003ca href=\"https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/03/19/this-chart-shows-why-the-prison-population-is-so-vulnerable-to-covid-19\">particularly vulnerable during this pandemic\u003c/a>, and new safety measures have also limited the support they’re able to receive. In the California state prison system, for instance, all visitors, volunteers and rehabilitative program providers have been suspended since mid-March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Puckett, the timing of his release has been bittersweet, but he’s grateful to be able to spend extra time with his sister and daughter at their home in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, it’s good and it’s bad, so I take it as it is,” he said. “But I’d much rather be out here dealing with this situation than dealing with it in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puckett said there are ways to make a positive impact in the lives of incarcerated people despite safety restrictions, such as writing to them or donating to organizations that are continuing to do critical work, like the\u003ca href=\"http://ncip.org\"> Innocence Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is a list of ways you can help incarcerated people during the pandemic:\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"1\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#2\">Give Money Directly\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#3\">Help People Post Bail\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#4\">Donate to Organizations Helping Incarcerated Individuals\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#5\">Send a Message of Encouragement\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#6\">Support Those Coming Out of Jail or Prison\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.themarshallproject.org/?ref=nav\">The Marshall Project\u003c/a>, a nonprofit news organization focused on criminal justice, created \u003ca href=\"https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/05/05/covid-19-a-survival-guide-for-incarcerated-people\">a survival guide for incarcerated people \u003c/a>that gives advice for how they can protect themselves while in jail or prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"2\">\u003c/a>Give Money Directly\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org/?fbclid=IwAR3jbwbIfcugrMIhkT_xMFaeupszlAlZVxbF75wIuugS6hNAPOHW4oOhHOA\">Restore Justice\u003c/a>, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization for criminal justice reform, organized \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/823371021475580/about/\">a Facebook group\u003c/a> to help people find incarcerated individuals who need money for commissary items such as food, or hygiene products like soap and toothpaste. You can find identification information for an incarcerated person who needs money and \u003ca href=\"https://web.connectnetwork.com/deposit-money-inmate-commissary/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIxtbIup-v6AIVjSCtBh1ecgDXEAAYASABEgLwj_D_BwE\">send it directly\u003c/a> to that person’s account.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"3\">\u003c/a>Help People Post Bail\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Community bail funds allow people to pay their bail and await trial at home, thus reducing jail populations. \u003ca href=\"https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directory\">Here is a national directory\u003c/a> of bail funds within the criminal or immigration detention systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"4\">\u003c/a>Donate to Organizations Helping Incarcerated Individuals\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some community organizations have created funds to provide personal protective equipment and hygiene supplies to incarcerated people in jails and prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizations that support incarcerated people continue to do critical work, even though many of their efforts are currently hindered by health and safety precautions. Here are some local organizations that are continuing to provide support and resources:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Support the \u003ca href=\"http://ncip.org\">Northern California Innocence Project\u003c/a> by donating toward a variety of efforts that continue through the pandemic, including case work and client support, policy reform and virtual classroom and curriculum development. \u003ca href=\"http://ncip.org/how-to-help-while-we-shelter-in-place/\">Donate here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org\">Restore Justice\u003c/a> is accepting donations to purchase N95 masks for incarcerated people and staff at prisons. \u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org/donate-for-covid-19/\">Donate here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Science Policy Group at UCSF is currently working \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11813091/hand-sanitizer-for-the-people-the-allyship-of-an-actor-and-phd-student\">on a mutual aid project\u003c/a> to distribute hand sanitizer to vulnerable populations in the Bay Area, including people who are incarcerated. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/gqgve-hand-sanitizer-for-vulnerable-groups-amid-covid19?\">Donate here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonlit.org\">Prisoners Literature Project\u003c/a> is currently unable to send books, for the most part, but you can still buy books through their Amazon wish list for when operations resume. \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/PLPwishlist\">Find it here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.insightprisonproject.org\">Insight Prison Project\u003c/a>, based in San Rafael, offers programs for prisoners and parolees. \u003ca href=\"https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/insightprisonproject\">Donate here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"5\">\u003c/a>Send a Message of Encouragement\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Since health and safety precautions have limited the visitors who can come into prisons and jails, incarcerated people are now even further isolated from family, friends and volunteers. Puckett and Lori Stone, a spokesperson for the Northern California Innocence Project, said receiving mail can go a long way in helping to lift incarcerated people’s spirits, especially now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that writing is really awesome because, you know, everybody out here is in lockdown in the communities, but the prisons are in lockdown as well,” Stone said. “There are a lot of folks that are kind of on their own inside the prisons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To send a letter, you have to know the name and ID number of an incarcerated person. If you don’t know someone personally, you can locate a pen pal online or through an organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Contact someone directly:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/visitors/howtocontact/\">Here’s how to contact someone\u003c/a> you already know in California state prison.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Find a pen pal:\u003c/strong> You can find incarcerated people in search of a pen pal through a Facebook group, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/prison.pen.pals.inmate.penpals/\">this one\u003c/a>, or through efforts like the \u003ca href=\"https://prisonercorrespondenceproject.com/getting-a-penpal/\">Prisoner Correspondence Project\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://writeaprisoner.com/home/faq#faq-443903\">Write a Prisoner\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Reach out to students at San Quentin State Prison:\u003c/strong> Though the \u003ca href=\"http://www.prisonuniversityproject.org/?fbclid=IwAR2bBxaS1xPHLGiryLHCoQgSEedZYyekrKEAzEEtNrdZRw9jZJVtW-GkkLw\">Prison University Project\u003c/a> is temporarily suspending all programming at San Quentin State Prison, you can \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Prison.University.Project/posts/10156795907691932?__tn__=-R\">send a message\u003c/a> to students at info@prisonuniversityproject.org, with the subject heading “Message to Students.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Go through the Innocence Project:\u003c/strong> One Innocence Project client, Darrill Henry, had his conviction overturned in April, and he’s now awaiting his new trial from Louisiana State Penitentiary. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Monday, April 6, 2:30 pm\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for defendants in federal court in San Diego — including hundreds of migrants charged with illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border — said their clients are at imminent risk from coronavirus in jail, and they’ve issued an urgent call for defendants to be released on bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jails are uniquely dangerous settings for COVID-19,” wrote Kathryn Nester, executive director of the Federal Defenders of San Diego, in a letter this week to Sen. Kamala Harris. “A COVID-19 crisis in our jails will greatly exacerbate the pandemic in our communities,” the letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nester told Harris that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego has consistently denied requests by defense attorneys to agree to bail for people charged with non-violent offenses, in spite of the risk of COVID-19 transmission in the region’s three federal detention facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She asked the senator to pressure the U.S. Justice Department to release inmates awaiting trial and to take legislative action to speed up “the immediate release of as many inmates as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The call comes as coronavirus begins to surge through jails and prisons around the country, including 167 cases in Chicago’s Cook County Jail as of Thursday, and more than 239 at Riker’s Island in New York City by Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California prison officials announced plans this week to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11810000/state-prisons-plan-early-release-of-3500-inmates-to-combat-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">release almost 3,500 inmates\u003c/a> early to combat the spread of coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And sheriffs in the Bay Area and beyond have also begun releasing some low-level inmates. San Francisco has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809081/san-francisco-da-joins-growing-call-to-release-ice-detainees-during-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reduced its jail population by 25%\u003c/a> in recent weeks, according to SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11810060/ice-detainees-in-panic-over-coronavirus-await-ruling-on-release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">advocates for detained immigrants have filed lawsuits\u003c/a> around the country demanding U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) release medically vulnerable people from ICE detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, a federal judge ordered six people released from the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in San Bernardino County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris is “exploring options,” to answer the defense attorneys’ plea for help, according to her aides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The allegations raised are deeply concerning,” Harris said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prosecutors must make responsible charging decisions that eliminate unnecessary or excessive incarceration, especially during the coronavirus crisis,” she added, stating that the Justice Department must address the matter “urgently and re-evaluate how it is enforcing and detaining individuals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Diego, in response to the Federal Defenders’ charge that his office is ignoring the risk of COVID-19, San Diego’s U.S. Attorney Robert Brewer said federal prosecutors are taking an active role to protect health and safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brewer said they are meeting regularly with stakeholders, including defense attorneys, court officials and the jails, to respond to the coronavirus crisis, and are working directly with the Federal Defenders to release scores of inmates willing to plead guilty and accept a sentence of “time served.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"coronavirus, covid-19\" label=\"More Coronavirus Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have dramatically reduced our intake of new, reactive cases while continuing to focus on our mission to protect the public,” wrote Brewer in a statement, adding, “prosecutions are continuing… but we have elected to issue \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/legal-resources/notice-appear-policy-memorandum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Notices to Appear\u003c/a> in federal court to many of those individuals rather than taking them into custody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Defenders office, a non-profit legal service provider, represents about 1,500 indigent people charged with federal crimes — about half of all those in San Diego’s federal court with a court-appointed lawyer. The vast majority of the organization’s clients are charged with non-violent offenses, and more than half face prosecution for immigration offenses such as illegal entry or illegal re-entry to the U.S., lawyers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, lawyers with the Federal Defenders of San Diego have stopped visiting clients in jail, and are meeting with them by phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent days, attorneys have been gathering information from clients about coronavirus conditions in San Diego’s three federal jails: the Metropolitan Correctional Center, run by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons; the Western Region Detention Facility, run by the private company GEO Group; and the Otay Mesa Detention Center, run by another private company CoreCivic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far 45 inmates have responded to the questionnaire, and most have voiced fear of the disease and offered evidence that the jails are under pressure from the pandemic, said Joshua Jones, senior litigator at Federal Defenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the concerns Jones documented:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Sleeping arrangements make social distancing impossible, including in dorm-style units at the Metropolitan Correctional Center where bunks are spaced “an arm’s distance” apart and people report being “packed like sardines;”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>At meals and in TV rooms at the MCC and GEO Group facilities, people sit side by side, with up to eight people at a table;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>To reach the dining hall at the Core Civic facility, 20-25 people are squeezed into a locked sally port, where they stand shoulder to shoulder;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Insufficient soap is provided at all three jails, showers and bathrooms are shared by dozens of people and not cleaned between uses;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The water was off for three days at the GEO Group facility recently;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Inmates at MCC report sick detainees coughing for days, with some spitting blood into open trash cans, and one man who had to be carried to the bathroom by fellow detainees;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Guards at the GEO Group facility continue to perform physical searches and pat-downs of inmates;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>At least one guard at the Core Civic facility was diagnosed with COVID-19 and several inmates showed symptoms of the disease;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And some inmates do not want to report their symptoms for fear of being isolated in solitary confinement.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way to prevent the fact that guards are coming in and out,” of the jails, said Jones. “Any introduction of COVID is going to spread like wildfire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to the findings of the questionnaire, Ryan Gustin, public affairs manager for CoreCivic, said that the company had learned on April 2 that a second employee at the Otay Mesa Detention Center had tested positive for COVID-19. Gustin said that the worker’s last shift was on March 20 and the person was currently isolated at home under medical supervision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Notification was made to other employees or contractors who may have been in contact with the individual who tested positive,” said Gustin in a statement. “Any employees who are known to have had direct contact with this individual will be directed to self-quarantine at home for 14 days, as recommended by the CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gustin also pointed KQED to a CoreCivic \u003ca href=\"https://www.corecivic.com/en/corecivic-statement-on-covid-19-prevention\">statement\u003c/a> about COVID-19 prevention, which says the company began preparing in January. 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The vast majority of the organization’s clients are charged with non-violent offenses, and more than half face prosecution for immigration offenses such as illegal entry or illegal re-entry to the U.S., lawyers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, lawyers with the Federal Defenders of San Diego have stopped visiting clients in jail, and are meeting with them by phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent days, attorneys have been gathering information from clients about coronavirus conditions in San Diego’s three federal jails: the Metropolitan Correctional Center, run by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons; the Western Region Detention Facility, run by the private company GEO Group; and the Otay Mesa Detention Center, run by another private company CoreCivic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far 45 inmates have responded to the questionnaire, and most have voiced fear of the disease and offered evidence that the jails are under pressure from the pandemic, said Joshua Jones, senior litigator at Federal Defenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the concerns Jones documented:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Sleeping arrangements make social distancing impossible, including in dorm-style units at the Metropolitan Correctional Center where bunks are spaced “an arm’s distance” apart and people report being “packed like sardines;”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>At meals and in TV rooms at the MCC and GEO Group facilities, people sit side by side, with up to eight people at a table;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>To reach the dining hall at the Core Civic facility, 20-25 people are squeezed into a locked sally port, where they stand shoulder to shoulder;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Insufficient soap is provided at all three jails, showers and bathrooms are shared by dozens of people and not cleaned between uses;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The water was off for three days at the GEO Group facility recently;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Inmates at MCC report sick detainees coughing for days, with some spitting blood into open trash cans, and one man who had to be carried to the bathroom by fellow detainees;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Guards at the GEO Group facility continue to perform physical searches and pat-downs of inmates;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>At least one guard at the Core Civic facility was diagnosed with COVID-19 and several inmates showed symptoms of the disease;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And some inmates do not want to report their symptoms for fear of being isolated in solitary confinement.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way to prevent the fact that guards are coming in and out,” of the jails, said Jones. “Any introduction of COVID is going to spread like wildfire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to the findings of the questionnaire, Ryan Gustin, public affairs manager for CoreCivic, said that the company had learned on April 2 that a second employee at the Otay Mesa Detention Center had tested positive for COVID-19. 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As [coronavirus] gets worse, the plan for us gets worse.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I’m put in a Catch-22 situation,” said the 41 year old, who said he is awaiting sentencing for drug possession and distribution charges. “Damned if I do, damned if I don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the coronavirus spreads across California, its effects are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11807632/from-arrests-to-trials-and-jails-bay-areas-criminal-justice-system-reels-in-age-of-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rippling through\u003c/a> the criminal justice system. Courts have postponed trials and other proceedings. The governor has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11808622/gov-newsom-halts-prison-transfers-of-new-inmates-citing-coronavirus-threat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suspended\u003c/a> new intakes into state prisons. 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Proceedings for his own case, which involves a felony murder charge, have stalled until at least May, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sucks,” he said. “There’s no jury to call to trial. No witnesses. I don’t see an end in sight. As [coronavirus] gets worse, the plan for us gets worse.” He’s also concerned about conditions and his exposure to the virus.[aside postID=\"news_11808622,news_11809227,news_11807632\" label=\"More Criminal Justice and Coronavirus Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County's Sgt. Deterding said in an emailed statement that inmates are provided with “cleaning supplies on a regular basis and at their request\" and are given unlimited access to television news coverage of COVID-19. Common areas are cleaned regularly, along with phones, tables, door handles and other commonly used surface areas, Deterding wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Santa Clara County’s Elmwood jail, Page echoed concerns over stalled proceedings. 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Michael Low, spokesperson for the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office, said in an email that corrections officers have been “implementing social distancing within the jails, conducting frequent temperature checks and having smaller groups of inmates out of their cells at a time.” They have also suspended all in-person visitation and jail programs, issued masks and other protective equipment to jail staff and established video arraignments to minimize transporting inmates to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in both Santa Clara and Sacramento county jails said access to commissary — where inmates can buy food and other supplies — has been limited. Page said this has been an issue because he and other inmates aren’t fed from 4 p.m. to 4 a.m., and they don’t always have adequate amounts of food and sanitary supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coronavirus has already started infiltrating Elmwood jail. 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"content": "\u003cp>Jury trials across the Bay Area have been postponed. Local jails are closed to visitors. Inmate advocates are calling for the large-scale release of people who don’t pose a threat to public safety. From new arrests to early releases, the threat of COVID-19 is affecting every stage of the criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local law enforcement said they are focusing primarily on high-priority calls for service, those that involve serious crimes in progress. Arrests are still being made, but at least some departments said they are leaning more heavily on their authority to cite and release people for lower-level offenses — rather than booking them — to limit the jail population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Juliana Morris, Do No Harm Coalition\"]'It’s really only a matter of time until the disease reaches Santa Rita Jail ... It’s a public health nightmare waiting to happen.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For example, someone driving on a suspended license or in possession of a controlled substance” might just get a citation right now, said Sgt. Juan Valencia of the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County suspended its policy of criminally charging people after \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/13/exclusive-santa-clara-county-da-will-stop-filing-charges-in-most-minor-drug-cases/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their third recreational drug offense\u003c/a>, which Assistant District Attorney David Angel estimated could keep an additional 500 people out of its jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, no local jails have reported a known case of COVID-19. But Sgt. Michael Low of the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Thursday that an inmate at their Elmwood Correctional Facility died after an unknown illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The medical examiner will be conducting additional testing to see if COVID-19 was a factor,” Low wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By their nature, jails house a large number of people in a confined space, making preventive measures like social distancing difficult to implement. Inmate rights advocates, jail officials and public health officials are expressing concern about the possibility of the coronavirus spreading rapidly through incarcerated populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Sheriff Gregory Ahern said Wednesday that the potential for an outbreak inside Santa Rita Jail is “a major concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County Public Defender Robin Lipetzky said while it’s fortunate no jail cases of COVID-19 have been reported yet, “that is not surprising given that the population is not being tested. Given what we know medically about the spread of the coronavirus, we believe that many people are being needlessly exposed to the virus in custody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like public defenders in Alameda County and San Francisco, her office is calling for the release of all inmates who don’t pose a public safety risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are scrambling to get as many [clients] out as possible, but this is difficult with only one courtroom open for very limited purposes,” Lipetzky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Coverage\" tag=\"coronavirus\"]While the early release process has been slow to get off the ground in Contra Costa County, according to Lipetzky, other counties appear to be taking the initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel said that his team in the Santa Clara County DA’s office has been working with the public defender and sheriff to bring the county’s current jail population down at least 10% to 20% from its prepandemic number of 3,300.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In just over 10 days, the county reduced its population to “just over 3,000,” Angel said. And on Friday, the county determined about 150 additional inmates who could be released, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel said Santa Clara County is targeting several distinct groups for early and/or supervised release: low-level offenders, people incarcerated largely because they can’t afford bail, people with pending sentences, “medically fragile” individuals as determined by the jail’s medical team and inmates with 90 days or fewer left on their sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This does not mean every member of the above groups has been, or will be, released, Angel said. For instance, if an inmate is deemed a public safety risk, or if they are severely mentally ill and unable to take care of themselves, they would not be released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda County Sheriff's Office said in a Thursday tweet that 247 people were approved for early release and an additional 67 were released on their own recognizance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ACSOSheriffs/status/1240698647207018499\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists called for larger steps to empty Santa Rita Jail, including ending new bookings at the jail and releasing more people, especially anyone who may be vulnerable to contracting COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really only a matter of time until the disease reaches Santa Rita Jail,” Dr. Juliana Morris of the Do No Harm Coalition said during a streamed press conference Thursday. “It’s a public health nightmare waiting to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahern said all inmates at Santa Rita Jail are being screened for symptoms, as well as deputies and any civilian staff in the jail. So far, no one in custody has presented coronavirus symptoms, he said. Two housing units have been emptied to be used to isolate any inmates who begin to show symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re doing more than what’s necessary to take care of safety and health,” Ahern said, adding that the 4,500-person jail currently has more than 1,000 empty beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11807638\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2947px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11807638\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/20200319_163203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2947\" height=\"2210\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/20200319_163203.jpg 2947w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/20200319_163203-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/20200319_163203-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/20200319_163203-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/20200319_163203-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/20200319_163203-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/20200319_163203-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/20200319_163203-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/20200319_163203-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/20200319_163203-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2947px) 100vw, 2947px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Notices posted at the San Francisco Sheriff's Intake and Release Center on Thursday say that jails are closed for visiting and that court processes have been largely suspended. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju, who is pushing for similar releases, said his jailed clients are scared just like the rest of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But unlike a lot of us who are not incarcerated, they can't take those steps to create that social distance,\" Raju said. \"They can't wash their hands with soap whenever they want to. And they can't take the appropriate steps to boost their immune system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto released a \u003ca href=\"https://sfsheriff.com/sites/default/files/2020-03/COVID-19%20Response%20%26%20Action%20Plan%20-03-11-2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plan\u003c/a> on March 10 to keep COVID-19 out of the city’s jails. Details include triage measures to assess arrestees for signs of infection and contingency plans should a positive case be detected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arrestees in San Mateo County will undergo “an intensive medical screening” for COVID-19 before being booked into jail, according to a March 14 Facebook post from the sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three inmates in Santa Clara County jails have already been put into isolation for 14 days “due to a possible exposure by a visitor,” according to a March 17 press release. “None of those inmates show any signs or symptoms associated to COVID-19, but are being closely monitored by medical professionals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low said those inmates were not tested, and will be placed back into their respective housing units once the isolation period ends. He also said staff is conducting frequent temperature checks on all inmates and “implementing social distancing” in the jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Robin Lipetzky, Contra Costa County public defender\"]'It is too early to determine the long-term impacts, other than to say that we will be dealing with the fallout from this for a very long time.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia said in Sonoma County, no inmates or staff have undergone testing for COVID-19, but that arrestees are being asked additional questions about their health and travel history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County Sheriff’s spokesman Jimmy Lee declined to answer questions about medical screening for inmates or staff. However, Lee noted that deputies have been given protective equipment “to include gloves, googles, gowns, a face shield and masks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While family visits have been suspended for all counties under shelter-in-place orders, jails are still allowing legal visits. And a couple of facilities have made modest efforts to provide easier access to phone calls. Santa Clara County is offering inmates two free five-minute phone calls twice a week, while in San Francisco jails, phone calls will be free for a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jury trials and the majority of hearings have been delayed in Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara, San Francisco, Marin, San Mateo and Sonoma counties. Traffic cases have been postponed for at least a month. Civil trials and motions have been postponed for up to three months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the proceedings that are not being delayed are bail reduction/own recognizance hearings for in custody defendants,” San Mateo District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe wrote in an email. “Those hearings are continuing without any delay,” to avoid keeping people in jail longer than necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with arraignments, hearings for domestic violence restraining orders are still taking place in some jurisdictions, according to information posted by the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public defenders from Contra Costa, Santa Clara, San Francisco and Alameda counties all said their offices have been extremely busy dealing with the emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District attorney’s offices are also still open to “to review new criminal cases in order to make charging decisions, to staff arraignments, to create discovery packets and to respond to critical matters,” said Teresa Drenick, spokeswoman for the Alameda County district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, most courts are closed to the public and minimally staffed. \u003ca href=\"http://www.alameda.courts.ca.gov/Resources/Documents/Alameda%20Court%20Closure%20Press%20Release%202020-03-17(2).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alameda\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfsuperiorcourt.org/sites/default/files/images/News%20Release%20--%20Coronavirus%20%28COVID-19%29%20%28007%29.pdf?1584651560194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco\u003c/a> Superior Courts are allowing certain types of emergency filings to be made via a drop box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of note as well, the [Alameda County] Family Justice Center remains open for critical needs,” Drenick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/california-chief-justice-issues-guidance-to-expedite-court-emergency-orders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emergency orders\u003c/a> issued by California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye over the past week give courts the authority to implement closures and delays at least until early April, but they could be extended well beyond that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is too early to determine the long-term impacts,” Contra Costa Public Defender Lipetzky said, “other than to say that we will be dealing with the fallout from this for a very long time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Raquel Maria Dillon of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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They were like, ‘Wow.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a quarter of U.S. states and numerous smaller jurisdictions are looking for ways to reduce the use of solitary confinement, according to the Vera Institute of Justice, which encourages alternatives to a practice behavioral experts say is dehumanizing and can worsen mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policies in California came after Specter’s firm sued seven of California’s 58 counties, alleging that conditions had grown inhumane as jails absorbed inmates who previously would have served their sentences in state prisons. The state in 2011 began sending less serious offenders to local jails for years at a time to ease crowding in state penitentiaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some jurisdictions nationwide are banning isolation for young offenders, pregnant women or those with mental health diagnoses. The California counties’ approach of generally limiting it to those who engage in continued violent behavior has dramatically reduced the number of inmates in isolation and the length of time they stay there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa started 2019 with about 100 people in solitary, most jailsfor more than a year. It had just three in isolation cells by December, after officials began using the new approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rick Raemisch, executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections\"]'Think of yourself being in a cell the size of a parking space for 23 hours a day. At a minimum you’re going to get angry, and when you get angry you’re going to fight back.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County also is following the policy pioneered by Santa Clara County, while Fresno County is considering it. Among other things, it encourages the use of low-cost incentives to reward good behavior, like the opportunity to listen to the radio, watch a movie or get an extra snack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County has cut its isolated population roughly in half, to about 60 inmates, said Lt. 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And Cook County, Illinois, no longer keeps troublesome inmates in isolation, allowing them to regularly spend time with about a half-dozen other inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been a decades-long effort to reform solitary, especially in prisons. But what we haven’t seen is a paired reform effort for jails,” said Amy Fettig, director of the American Civil Liberty Union’s Stop Solitary campaign. “In Santa Clara what we’re seeing is an attempt to reform the whole process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long-term isolation can be so debilitating, Fettig said, that she’s had clients cut themselves “just to feel something because they’ve become numb.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County once had 400 inmates in solitary confinement. Specter’s client in Santa Clara County had been in solitary confinement for nearly five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By last fall there were about 40 inmates confined to isolation cells for an average of about two months, and just 26 by December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith said she and many deputies were initially skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has surprised me, and I think it’s very, very good for our inmates,” she said. “I think what we’re doing is correct, and I think it’s working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said she remains concerned that assaults on staff are up. She said the increase is logical, however, since inmates locked in their cells virtually around the clock have little opportunity to assault anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Todd Kendrick, president of the county's correctional officers association, attributed the increase to other less restrictive jail policies as well as the easing of solitary confinement. He and Smith both called for increased staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said the county fell into a pattern of protectively isolating inmates to separate purported gang members and those charged with murder and to safeguard jailhouse informants or sex offenders for fear they would be harmed. Officials sought to improve after several major incidents, including deaths in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like most jails, three-quarters or more of inmates had not been convicted of a crime and yet spent months and sometimes years awaiting trial in isolation. 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